More Not-At-All Ridiculous Rhetoric From Kit Bond: The EPA May "Starve" Missourians

Sen. Kit Bond doesn't like the idea of allowing the EPA to regulate greenhouse gasses, and supports a resolution by Sen. Lisa Murkowksi (R-AK) to stop the EPA from using the Clean Air Act to rein in emissions.

In fact, Bond hates a recent ruling allowing the EPA to reduce emmisions so much that he's telling folks the EPA just might "starve" Missourians. Listen to this clip from his weekly radio show (via The Hill):

"I think nobody wants to see a bureaucracy that is focused on the east coast and the left coast tell us how we live, or pay higher taxes and starve in the midwest," he said. 

It's not every day that U.S. Senators talk about how the federal government may "starve" Midwesterners so the "east coast and the left coast" might live -- but if it's coming from Kit Bond, it's got to be a completely reasonable statement.

The most obvious solution to the question about EPA regulation of CO2 is to pass some real climate and clean energy legislation, but we all know Bond hates that too.

For more sensible reactions to the EPA ruling about greenhouse gases, check out this summary from Climate Progress and this post from Yael T. Abouhalkah in The Star.