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EPA increases biofuel
mandate despite court order

Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke

Original Article

Posted By:KarenJ1, 1/31/2013 9:01:22 PM

Just one week after a federal court rebuked the Environmental Protection Agency for mandating biofuel standards based on “wishful thinking,” the EPA responded by raising those standards to even more unattainable levels. The EPA called for refiners and importers to mix 14 million gallons of cellulosic biofuels (ethanol) into fuel in 2013. “EPA calculates a percentage-based standard for the following year,” the agency explained in an announcement today. “Based on the standard, each refiner and importer determines the minimum volume of renewable fuel that it must ensure is used in its transportation fuel.”

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Where is anyone who can stop this outrageous, lawless behavior?? Hello congress, are you there?? It looks like this is going to be the norm from this tyrannical regime unless something is done. It´s just infuriating.

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: quark, 1/31/2013 9:12:40 PM     (No. 9151459)

So, everyone can sue again, and we will pay for it. The gov & lawyers will prob be ok.


Reply 2 - Posted by: bluefindad, 1/31/2013 9:20:41 PM     (No. 9151468)

Why is it so difficult to simply cut their funding?


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: Keekng, 1/31/2013 9:22:44 PM     (No. 9151473)

Cut funding in Washington? Hahahahaha


Reply 4 - Posted by: STLstudent, 1/31/2013 9:35:13 PM     (No. 9151492)

Cut their funding? That would require courage and integrity. The Republican Party lacks courage, integrity, and, worse of all, it lacks a belief. It believes in nothing other than reelection.

It´s time, it´s really time for conservatives and libertarians to abandon the Republican Party and go elsewhere.


Reply 5 - Posted by: Davids918, 1/31/2013 9:39:41 PM     (No. 9151500)

Just say NO!

What does it matter?

Let the EPA try to sue them based on nothing, and have the refiners simply bring a harrassment lawsuit back at the EPA.


Reply 6 - Posted by: curious1, 1/31/2013 9:47:50 PM     (No. 9151514)

There´s the constitutionalists´ party. Maybe that could be grown in the next three years.


Reply 7 - Posted by: Shelgeyr, 1/31/2013 9:48:29 PM     (No. 9151516)

Arrest every last EPA decision maker for contempt of court, and schedule their hearing for sometime mid next year.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: The Advocate, 1/31/2013 9:52:04 PM     (No. 9151521)

The EPA uses law fare on corporate America.
Companies must comply or face expensive lawsuits,
Alternatively, they write regs so their environmental nazi non profits can sue corporations nd make money on settlements.
The consumer pays in both cases.
Defund the ep,completely nd send the fascists home.


Reply 9 - Posted by: Ida Lou Pino, 1/31/2013 10:00:38 PM     (No. 9151527)

This is the type of agency that the 1990´s conservative republicans vowed to shut down - - if they ever controlled both the presidency and congress.

And bingo! A few years later - - they did!

Unfortunately their president was a leftist RINO named Bush - - and their congressional leaders were corrupt self-servers named Lott and DeLay.

They not only didn´t follow through on the Reagan Revolution - - they actually betrayed it. The period from 2000-2008 was the biggest blown opportunity in this nation´s history.

And now - - and now we´re governed by communists. I cry for my beloved country. Often.


Reply 10 - Posted by: Heil Liberals, 1/31/2013 10:52:57 PM     (No. 9151571)

Study by the American Petroleum Institute says E15 (the next mandated blend) is poison to engines. Their studies conclude that there is danger to autos and lives due to mechanical failures caused by a 15% ethanol blend. But we´ll know the science doesn´t matter, only what the king and his minions want. The people be damned.


Reply 11 - Posted by: whyyeseyec, 1/31/2013 10:54:12 PM     (No. 9151572)

Is it too much to ask that the federal judge who made the decision rebuking the EPA simply issue a contempt citation against the person(s)ignoring the decision an order them jailed?


Reply 12 - Posted by: liberalslovetaxes, 2/1/2013 2:37:21 AM     (No. 9151716)

The Washington Kremlin at work.


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: dirtyjersey, 2/1/2013 2:49:52 AM     (No. 9151721)

#9 - You said it all.

We HAD our chance, and blew it. We decided to run the government like a business instead of running it out of business.

Boehner needs to realize that his job is not to compromise, but to obstruct. He is the fine line between us a tyranny, and we must resist at all costs.

Stop worrying about MSNBC and Obama´s bullying. Send one spending bill per agency to the Senate, and make sure that all of the sacred cows like first responders and Social Security are funded. Then drop the hammer.

Zero funding for the Depts of Energy, Education and the NLRB. If Obama wants to fight, go right ahead and fight...the American people are left unharmed. Phase out the Dept of Transportation, and force the merger of the FDA and Dept of Agriculture (and require a 30% reduction in staff as a net result).

Boehner needs to learn how to set a trap and follow it through. I am highly skeptical that he knows how to, but he needs to realize that no one else is coming to save us.


Reply 14 - Posted by: PoliticalJunky, 2/1/2013 4:06:45 AM     (No. 9151750)

Reply 7, who will issue the arrest warrants and who will serve them? I think it´s a great idea but I need help in figuring out how to do it.


Reply 15 - Posted by: bumbleshorts, 2/1/2013 4:24:41 AM     (No. 9151757)

Great, a new plague of "solyndras" coming our way. Grants and "free obama money" loans to start up companies (not) making products to solve problems that do not exist with a streamlined system to pay the obama bribe (obama´s new organizing for America).

Pucker factor nine.


Reply 16 - Posted by: Spidey, 2/1/2013 5:12:08 AM     (No. 9151772)

This probably doesn´t even have anything to do with cleaner air or any other climate crap. Ethanol production has become a mega industry in this country which is costing taxpayers billions more a year in subsidies.

At the same time the left continues to push for higher death tax rates,hitting small farmers the hardest. When faced with with the un-payable tax,they sell their farms to big ag which then flips the farm to corn production for more government handouts.

Monopolizing food production is just another left wing goal and they´re using obseity as a wedge to get their foot in the door.


Reply 17 - Posted by: Trigger2, 2/1/2013 5:26:34 AM     (No. 9151779)

This just proves that the EPA is looking for fines to be paid. How about the fact that an increase in ethenol in gasoline causes engine failure on a massive scale. Is this an attempt to get citizens to ship their current cars, lawnmowers, chain saws, etc. to the scrap yard and buy those self-suicide electric thing-a-ma-jigs?


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: kono, 2/1/2013 11:16:24 AM     (No. 9152410)

So instead of fining the fuel companies for not using a formulation that doesn´t exist, they´re going to find the biofuel companies for not producing the formulation in the first place? What´s the scope of this obligation to produce that formulation in the first place? If we can fine a company for not producing a product, can we fine all of them? For none of them is producing that product.

I´ve been calling Ø "Barack Antiochus Obama" over his HHS mandate violating the Catholic Church´s religious freedom. From now on, I think he should be called "Pharoah-bama"...



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