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Green insanity - companies fined for not using biofuel that doesn't exist
2012-01-10
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.
And the liberals wonder why the economy is still in the shitter and people are starting to get really pissed off at them.
Posted by:DarthVader

#8  Home Depot associate: "Cellulosic biofuel? Yes, if we have any, it will be on aisle 4 next to the Transparent Aluminum and Unobtanium."

You can do it, we are help-less.
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2012-01-10 21:39  

#7  Vinod KhoslaÂ’s Range Fuels has declared bankruptcy
Range Fuels received a $76 million federal loan from the George W. Bush administration in 2007 and another $80 million from the Obama administration in 2009.

If you can't make it with a federal mandate to use your product then you suck beyond measure.
Posted by: Shimble Guelph5793   2012-01-10 21:35  

#6  @Dale: all part of the plan.
Posted by: Secret Asian Man   2012-01-10 21:06  

#5  The corn subsidies have stopped as of January this year. I know of a corn plant shutdown and another never to be built. We are losing about 100 farms a day now. Everything costs too much. Go green on your farm and get some breaks. Then you can't stop people coming onto your property even for hunting. Your stream is blocked with a fence and they plant whatever they want. No payments for not growing crops as in the past. Million acre company farm has its own small town, bank, and all the bells and whistles. Expensive farm equipment and money in the bank. Small farms are being forced out. Just like small business. OH, you have to be 18 to operate farm equipment.
Posted by: Dale   2012-01-10 19:58  

#4  Democrat ruling parties prefer you donate to them after or before you file for a waiver. After all not all companies are equal. Some are corrupt, just enough corrupt, or totally corrupt. But none match their master, the Elect in Washington DC. The ultimate money launderer.

And if you cannot pass a law, get Betsy - the nice girl in forensics to stop all work to impose a stop work in time for a recess of Congress so you cannot make payroll for the month because of a bug in the clay that's endangered.

But OBAMA's personal Frankenstein SOLYNDRA, LIGHTSQUARED, Evergreen, SpectraWatt, BrightSource, Tonopah Solar, Abound Solar, Nevada Geothermal Power, sun power, Granite Reliable, ProLogis, Monroe Regional Airport, Beacon power, Siga Technologies Inc, VOLT, Fisker gets a totall pass.
Posted by: newc   2012-01-10 19:47  

#3  Damn, Darth - you beat me to it.

If I were the companies, I'd take this to court. It would cost a lot less than $6.8 million. :-(
Posted by: Barbara   2012-01-10 15:51  

#2  Catch 22? Kafka?? You decide.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2012-01-10 14:29  

#1  No waivers? Guess the checks didn't clear.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-01-10 13:27  

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