Your government in action

[jimpeel]

The environmental -- mostly mental -- types that populate the EPA like lice on a dog live in a fantasy world -- literally.

They are now requiring refiners to use a non-existent product in their refining process.

SOURCE

EPA blasted for requiring oil refiners to add type of fuel that's merely hypothetical

By Jim Angle
Published June 21, 2012
FoxNews.com

Federal regulations can be maddening, but none more so than a current one that demands oil refiners use millions of gallons of a substance, cellulosic ethanol, that does not exist.

"As ludicrous as that sounds, it's fact," says Charles Drevna, who represents refiners. "If it weren't so frustrating and infuriating, it would be comical."

And Tom Pyle of the Institute of Energy Research says, "the cellulosic biofuel program is the embodiment of government gone wild."

Refiners are at their wit's end because the government set out requirements to blend cellulosic ethanol back in 2005, assuming that someone would make it. Seven years later, no one has.

"None, not one drop of cellulosic ethanol has been produced commercially. It's a phantom fuel," says Pyle. "It doesn't exist in the market place."

And Charles Drevna adds, "forcing us to use a product that doesn't exist, they might as well tell us to use unicorns."

And yet, they still have to pay what amounts to fines:
"Why would they ask them to blend any at all if it doesn't exist?" Pyle said. "Because they know that they can squeeze some extra dollars out of them."

The EPA does have discretion to lower the annual requirement. And one supporter explains, that's what the agency is saying.

"We are going to reduce your blending obligation by 98 percent because we feel that that’s the right thing to do," says Brooke Coleman, the executive director of the Advanced Ethanol Council of the Renewable Fuels Association. "We are going to maintain your blending obligation on the gallons that we think are going to emerge."

The EPA, which would not speak on camera, is still hoping production of cellulosic ethanol will emerge.

A study by the Congressional Research Service, however, says the government "projects that cellulosic bio fuels are not expected to be commercially available on a large scale until at least 2015."

Drevna of the refiners association says they had no other choice left since EPA insisted they still had to blend some of the nonexistent cellulosic ethanol.

"We've had to go to the courts and litigate this thing is because they just turned a blind eye to us," Drevna said.

So the refiners are now suing the EPA, in part because the mandate gets larger and larger-- 500 million gallons this year, 3 billion in 2015 and 16 billion in 2022.

And still, not a gallon of cellulosic ethanol in sight.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/06/21/regulation-requires-oil-refiners-use-millions-gallons-fuel-that-is-nonexistent/#ixzz1ydDEQCrw​

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[Winky]

 

[2minkey]

awww, she's a VICTIM too.

 

[Winky]

 

[2minkey]

hmmm. awfully macho-aggressive there. seems like an attempt to compensate for personal impotence.

 

[Winky]

See if you can guess. Take all the time you need. Feel free to call one of your "lifelines" if necessary.

 

[2minkey]

i'll take cranky old farts for $500, alex.

 

[Winky]

I'm Proud To Be An American - The Tubes

 

[2minkey]

a fitting message from simple_topia.

 

[Winky]

complication is simply an attempt to obfuscate
ya don't have to be a Pee h Dee to know
what's in them 2471 pages
yeah what's right and true is always simple

 

[2minkey]

your blather-spew is meant to obfuscate.

 

[Winky]

"They say once the Forand bill is passed this nation will be provided with a mechanism for socialized medicine
capable of indefinite expansion in every direction until it includes the entire population. Now we can’t say we haven’t been warned."

 

[2minkey]

 

[Winky]

what happens when all the government hand outs
come to a screeching halt?

Or are you of the belief that there's no end to public largesse?

 

[Winky]

http://www.popmodal.com/video/14331/Star-Parker-assails-the-welfare-state

 

[2minkey]

random spew all over the map. you do understand that the vast majority of handouts go to white christian dirtbutts, who would largely call themselves conservative, right?

 

[2minkey]

 

[catocom]

That link there had no statistical facts, just some left-wing spewing.
Got a real, unbias link?
I thought not.
Just more made up, over the rainbow, idealogical BS.

 

[2minkey]

1. what's an "unbias link?"
2. you NEVER competently back up ANYTHING you say with statistics.
3. you are PROFOUNDLY SUSPICIOUS of statistics anyway.
4. even if you were not afraid stats, you do not know enough about them be able judge their validity.
5. you yourself are an example of such a white christian dirtbutt on the dole.
6. this is all a bunch of comic book bullshit anyway.

 

[Winky]

6. this is all a bunch of comic book bullshit anyway.

har har har go boyeeee
yeah the statistics show that negros and beanners get more handouts by percentage than whites
but there are more whites? so they get more of them by total numbers? OK
but saying the whites are all conservatives is a stretch for even you bromanski

I say kick Grandma over the cliff regardless of her political views, be she white brown or purple with pink polka dots!

better than have her drag the rest of us below the waves