Look, you racist capitalists, out to rapey-rape Gaia with your fevered fossil fuel addiction. You’ll do as the EPA commands you or pay fines. We don’t give a fucking farthing for your lames excuse that the fuel doesn’t exist …
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 yet, they still have to pay what amounts to fines: […]
“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.”
Must be nice to just issue a directive to invent something, then fine people when it doesn’t appear.
BTW, where’s my flying car?
Yeah, and where are the benefits from the bank bailouts – that you supported?
WTF does the article Darleen posted have to do with bank bailouts?
How does forcing companies (or people) to use a product that doesn’t exist (hell, any product) help anyone?
Shorter JeffY: SQUIRREL!!!
I’ll pay for their non-existent fuel with some of my non-existent cash.
THE POWER OF GAIA COMPELS YOU!
THE POWER OF GAIA COMPELS YOU!
We supported bank bailouts? Did I miss that memo? Darn it.
Is Jeff Y for real ?!
Open the pod bay door, Jeff Y.
Forget the flying car, Darleen. I want my robot maid.
Holodeck. I suspect Jeff Y. already has one though.
Obama supported the bank bailouts Jeff Y. And you are right, the results were unsatisfactory. Just for you I’m not going to vote for him. Okay? Who’s your buddy? I am!
Brooke Coleman represents a trade organization, not the government, so who the fuck does she think she is to be saying what “we” are going to do?
Forcing us to use other ‘products‘ [services] which do exist.
And just yesterday I was asking where all the mendacious, sorry, mendouchious twatwaffles had gone to. Thank you, Jeff Y, for restoring my faith in trolldom.
I think it’s easier and better to assume Jeff Y was hollering at Obama. He ain’t no troll though.
You may be right, sdferr — but the speaker is the one properly empowered to set the record straight. Preferably before he is innocently misinterpreted.
Malicious misinterpretation, of course, is a different matter.
Yeah brother. Me, I’m upfront making assumptions, and stand ready to change my view when Jeff Y wants to correct me. (I’ll still say he ain’t no troll, whatever he may say about it.)
I stand ready to be corrected. It did sound mendouchious and, as our benefactor is wont to remind, it is the hearer who gets to decide meaning.
Or did I get that wrong?
Jeff Y isn’t a troll. He used to be a pretty frequent commenter here, in fact.
My bad. I will perform whatever pennance is necessary. I withdraw the “troll” comment. But not the mendouchious one until proven otherwise.