Thursday, January 12, 2012

Your goverment in action

Might as well be mandating the use of unicorn piss. From (gasp) the New York Times:

WASHINGTON — When the companies that supply motor fuel close the books on 2011, they will pay about $6.8 million in penalties to the Treasury because they failed to mix a special type of biofuel into their gasoline and diesel as required by law.

But there was none to be had. Outside a handful of laboratories and workshops, the ingredient, cellulosic biofuel, does not exist.

In 2012, the oil companies expect to pay even higher penalties for failing to blend in the fuel, which is made from wood chips or the inedible parts of plants like corncobs. Refiners were required to blend 6.6 million gallons into gasoline and diesel in 2011 and face a quota of 8.65 million gallons this year.

“It belies logic,” Charles T. Drevna, the president of the National Petrochemicals and Refiners Association, said of the 2011 quota. And raising the quota for 2012 when there is no production makes even less sense, he said.

So let's see if we have this straight. The federal government mandates that oil companies put a product into their gasoline. Only it doesn't exist. And then the government fines them for not using a non-existent item.

And they want to run your healthcare?? And some think these brainiacs know how to do that better??

Read the whole disturbing story HERE.

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