## Response to the EPA Regarding Proposed EPA Carbon Dioxide Rules

The Democrat and EPA proposed rules to prevent Global Warming are nothing more than a continuation of President Obama's WAR AGAINST the POOR AND THE MIDDLE CLASS peoples of America. I, like most people, base my judgment on what the EPA and administration are doing, not what they say they are doing. Everyone that went to grade school and paid attention knows that the entire earth atmosphere acts as a greenhouse gas. The moon has almost no atmosphere and the temperature drops from over 250 Degrees Fahrenheit to lower than - 380 Degrees Fahrenheit in a matter of minutes when the sun drops below the moon's horizon.

When I was in the 4 th

grade, we knew that Water Vapor or the Humidity that makes up our clouds and falls as rain and snow is the main greenhouse gas. Water vapor is followed in importance by Nitrogen, then Oxygen, then Argon, and then finally Carbon Dioxide at less than 4 molecules of Carbon Dioxide per 10,000 molecules of the other atmospheric gases.

We 4 th grade students also knew that all plants need Carbon Dioxide to live and with light from the sun, they produce Oxygen through a process known as photosynthesis. Without Carbon Dioxide and photosynthesis, plants die. Without the Oxygen that plants generate with photosynthesis, WE WILL DIE. Very few people know that today because apparently our public schools don't teach basic science anymore. CO2 is the chemical name for Carbon Dioxide which is the gas that we breathe out when our lungs take in Oxygen from the air. Not many people know this. Like humans that are given extra oxygen after a heart attack or surgery, agronomists and professional greenhouse growers and managers know after years of experimentation and practice that plants grow faster, stronger, more free from disease, and produce more flowers or fruit, when the greenhouse CO2 level is elevated to approximately 3 times that of our normal atmosphere or approximatelyl2 molecules of CO2 per 10,000 molecules of the other greenhouse atmosphere gases. If you go to Google, you can find many systems for sale that greenhouse managers use to increase plant photosynthesis rates by elevating the CO2 level. They range from simple systems that can be placed over a furnace flue pipe to make sure the furnace flue CO2 is pure, to very large commercial systems that distribute liquid CO2 into miles of commercial greenhouses where it is warmed and evaporates as a gas to invigorate plant growth . We who actually did pay attention in science class are totally amazed that no-one within the EPA seems to know any of the above.

Bottom Lines to the EPA: The proposed rules against CO2 are nothing more than an attempt to fulfill President Obama's stated plan to Make the cost of energy sky-rocket. He could just as well have promised to make the cost of living shy-rocket for the poor and middle classes since in addition to gasoline to get to work and the energy to heat our homes, the cost of energy is the primary cost factor in our food from planting and cultivation, to transportation and the cost of keeping it fresh and cool in grocery stores and in our refrigerators at home. .... I say take your anti-0O2, anti-photosynthesis, and anti-poor and middle class Rules and shove them where the sun can not shine on them. Respectfully, Dale Comyford, P.E. Colorado Springs, CO.