…And it’s all in the name “man made” global warming. This from EDN online: (Environmental Protection Agency) could discourage IC manufacturing in the
country.
In late April, the EPA issued a proposed finding that greenhouse gases contribute to air pollution that may endanger public health or welfare.It looks as if the anti corporatists in the “environmentalist” movement looked over the list of the chemicals used by the semi conductor industry and addedthem to kill an entire category of [non union] manufacturers.
Quoting from EDN:
“Of the six gases identified as potential threats, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride are used in chip manufacturing. Although the companies using them regulate the gases and although the EPA finding does not offer proposed regulation of the gases, it does open the door to possibly stringent and costly restrictions on equipment makers and semiconductor manufacturers.”
Would a President who with swift speed remade the auto industry for the benefit of his union friends and “environmental” base think twice about sending non union manufacturing companies to their knees? Who continued to force TARP funds even after banks begged him to take back the government money? Who has plans to regulate how much people are paid? Who told a US Congressman from Oregon, “Don’t think we’re not keeping score, brother.” Who hails from the pay to play sludge that is Illinois politics? C’mon you know the answer to that question.
And all you techies know that Intel wouldn’t be the only target:
Micron, Texas Instruments, LSI Logic, …and dozens of smaller companies would be in trouble from this new rule.
The industry which brought you your tiny cellphone, technology to bring you that desk top computer and your laptop, brought health care improvements, revolutionized almost all industry, introduced robotics—all at light speed, is now destined to be wiped out in a perverse form of the law conceived of by the father of Intel, Gordon Moore. While he was at Fairchild, Gordon Moore predicted that chip performance would double every 18-24 months. This is known as Moore’s Law. Obama’s law states that American industry and exceptionalism will be wiped out in the first 24 months of his presidency.