AN EMAIL from the office of Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli:

Dear Friends,

On January 17th, Ken was speaking at a political rally about a number of the EPA's job killing regulations.

In that speech, Ken said:

"[Tailpipe emissions rules], if fully implemented with all the regulations that go with it, they will keep the temperature from rising nearly five one-hundredths of a degree Fahrenheit. By 2050."

As many of you know - the media has taken issue with Ken's statements about the EPA (including this one!), and claimed that they are false and attempted to discredit Ken's work to educate Virginians about the regulatory abuses being committed by the EPA.

PolitiFact Virginia, a non-partisan fact check source run by the Richmond Times-Dispatch analyzed that statement and found it to be true.

PolitiFact said:

"The EPA said the reductions would be between 0.011 degrees Fahrenheit and 0.027 degrees Fahrenheit and would occur by 2100. The agency's claim is even more modest than Cuccinelli suggested."

What's the big deal with this?

According to PolitiFact: "The agency says these new rules would add about $950 to the price of each new car but that the higher price would be offset by lower fuel costs over three to five years."

Let's recap:

The EPA wants to impose $950 per car in regulatory costs - to affect a change of, at most, .027 degrees Fahrenheit by the year 2100.