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jwhop
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posted January 12, 2012 03:02 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
So now, O'Bomber's EPA wants to fine motor fuel refiners for NOT adding an additive to fuel WHICH DOES NOT EXIST.

Wow, is it any wonder many are calling for legislation eliminating the EPA. They've certainly earned the disgust and contempt many Americans feel for them.

Further, O'Bomber is using the EPA to implement his radical Cap and Tax policy. The very policy O'Bomber couldn't get passed in the Congress of the United States.

Of course, this just shows the lawlessness of O'Bomber and the Marxist Socialist Progressive clowns he's brought into his administration.

EPA Fines Companies Because They Didn’t Use A Fuel That Doesn’t Exist
Gosh, it’s tough to figure out why that recovery is stalled
John Hayward
01/11/2012

The Orwellian nightmare of running a business in the shadow of the Obama Administration is nicely captured in this story from the New York Times, which explains why motor fuel companies are about to be fined $6.8 million for failure to use a biofuel that 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.

Penalizing the fuel suppliers demonstrates what happens when the federal government really, really wants something that technology is not ready to provide. In fact, while it may seem harsh that the Environmental Protection Agency​ is penalizing them for failing to do the impossible, the agency is being lenient by the standards of the law, the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act.

Ah, so that’s what passes for “lenience” from the bureaucrats and czars these days. Be thankful for our generosity, comrades! We could have fined you much more heavily for failing to do something that was literally impossible. Clutch every dollar we allow you to keep, and weep with joy at our munificence!

This is all part of an elaborate ritual fuel companies are required to perform, in accordance with the official state religion of “global warming.” These biofuels are supposed to reduce “greenhouse gas” emissions by 50 percent. Actually, I suppose the biofuels that don’t actually exist are reducing such emissions by 100 percent. Such is the wisdom of the almighty State.

This kind of nonsense is a regular feature of Stalinist command economics. Stalin himself was a bold pioneer in politically decreeing the impossible. He ordered that corn should be grown in Siberia, even though corn cannot grow in Siberia. The results were far worse than a $6.8 million tithe to the Church of Global Warming, so the fuel companies should consider themselves lucky.

How could anyone possibly defend this tyrannical lunacy? Like this:

[Dennis V. McGinn] of the council on renewable energy defends the overall energy statute. Even if the standards for 2011 and 2012 are not met, he said, “I am absolutely convinced from a national security perspective and an economic perspective that the renewable fuel standard, writ large, is the right thing to do.” With oil insecurity and climate change related to greenhouse gas emissions as worrisome as ever, advocates say, there is strong reason to press forward.

Never mind that no one can prove any such “climate change” is occurring, let alone that it has any relationship to “greenhouse gas emissions.” The commissars have spoken, and they are not to be questioned. If it makes no sense to you… well, perhaps your sanity needs to be questioned, eh?

Remember, Big Government is much smarter than private industry, and far better equipped to handle the ever-changing challenges of a fast-moving, high tech world. That’s why it raised the annual quotas for using a fuel that does not exist.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=48741&s=rcmp

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posted January 12, 2012 03:40 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Emeraldopal     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Has any one had any problems,
with getting bad gas?
I've gotten bad gas from two
different gas stations. ...


You, know I believe O'Bomba's
Grandma, he was born in Africa!

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jwhop
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posted January 13, 2012 09:53 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Bad gas is a problem everywhere.

Some underground gas storage tanks sweat and water condenses on the inside of the tank, then mixes with the gas. But, water and gasoline won't stay mixed. When the vehicle sits, the gas floats on top of the water in the gas tank. Then, because the fuel pickup is at the bottom of the gas tank, water is sucked up by the fuel pump and fed to the engine...which doesn't like a shot of straight water.

In other cases, gas stations run their storage tanks almost dry before a new gas delivery and the garbage...sediment from the bottom of the tank is sucked up and pumped into auto fuel tanks. This plugs inline fuel filters and also the fuel injectors.

There's an even bigger problem with gas mixed with ethanol. But, only if your car sits for weeks..or longer..at a time without being driven. Ethanol has a very great affinity for attracting water. Ethanol also gets gummy and plugs fuel lines, fuel filters and fuel injectors...if it's allowed to sit in near empty tanks for long periods.

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posted January 13, 2012 10:02 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for juniperb     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
In other cases, gas stations run their storage tanks almost dry before a new gas delivery and the garbage...sediment from the bottom of the tank is sucked up and pumped into auto fuel tanks. This plugs inline fuel filters and also the fuel injectors.

That`s more of the problem here. The stations can`t afford to fill the storage tanks as frequent as needed. Add on top of that, less consumer gas buying and this occurs

Really a PO at (currently) $3.69 a gallon.

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posted January 13, 2012 11:10 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Well juni, thanks for looking at the problem of tank sediment with a different slant.

It never occurred to me that station operators weren't able to keep their underground tanks topped off because of cash flow problems.

I think Randall's prediction of $7 O'Bomber gas may be on the low side.

Every move O'Bomber has made has been to restrict American drilling, production, refining and transportation of American oil and even oil from Canada...as well as natural gas.

Btw, gas prices here went from $3.15 per gallon to $3.49 in just 2 days.

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posted January 13, 2012 12:25 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
A Republican Presidency will be marked by the lowest gas prices we have seen since 2007 and the EPA cut to the bone.

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posted January 13, 2012 03:16 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
"A Republican Presidency will be marked by the lowest gas prices we have seen since 2007 and the EPA cut to the bone."

I believe all the candidates...with the exception of Ron Paul have talked about opening up America to drilling and oil production. Paul may have too and I might have missed it but I didn't miss the fact Ron Paul wants to whack large chunks off the federal government, which hopefully would include the EPA.

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posted January 13, 2012 03:28 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
January 13, 2012
How's That Government Meddling Workin' Out for Ya'?
Richard N. Weltz

Back in the heyday of the old Soviet Union an agricultural commissar from the Ukraine was summoned to the Agricultural Ministry in Moscow to report on the year's potato crop. "Ah, Comrade Minister," said the commissar, beaming, "If all the potatoes harvested this year were put into a single pile, it would reach to the feet of God."

"What!" exclaimed the minister, "you know that in Communism there is no God."

"Also," sighed the commissar, "in the Ukraine is no potatoes."

There was more truth than fiction to this old saw; and we remember the "good old days" of the USSR with complete government rule over production, 5-year plan after 5-year plan, and nothing but empty shelves, long lines just to buy bread, and tinny little cars for the few who could buy even that.

And we congratulated ourselves that in the good old U S of A, we were smart enough to allow market forces to bring abundance and luxury into every grocery, department store, or auto showroom. Shortages, certainly, were little known with respect to anything Americans needed or wanted. That may not be so true a whole lot longer, if Obama and his leftist-thinking ideologues continue to have their way.

Consider the following:

¡ñ Drugs needed to treat for ADHD (attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder) are in seriously short supply, as reported by the New York Times. It seems that the DEA worries that too much production might lead to theft, so it sets quotas on how much of the relevant drugs the pharmaceutical industry may produce each year. In its bureaucratic wisdom, this has caused severe shortages of the drugs for people, especially children, who badly need them.

¡ñ There's no shortage, however, of alternative-fueled cars; there's a glut thanks to government meddling. The recent automobile show in Detroit displayed a panoply of plug-in and hybrid vehicles that few, if any, buyers want. Reported Nick Bunkley:

Automakers are flooding the Detroit auto show with new hybrid and plug-in models, but the combination of gas prices below $4 a gallon and higher upfront costs for the cars is not attracting consumers.

Regardless, the automakers have little choice but to develop and try to push more hybrids as they prepare for fuel-efficiency requirements that call for significant increases later this decade.

¡ñ But there is a huge shortage of a mandated fuel additive. The feds may be levying up to $6.8 million in fines on oil companies who fail to blend into their gasoline and diesel fuels cellulosic biofuel, which is not available commercially, but which government planners demand refiners to blend in.

¡ñ On the other hand, the DoT's "Cash for Clunkers" program did create a shortage of affordable used cars because the rules set up by the planners mandated that, while the cars turned in had to be in drivable condition, they could not be resold on the secondhand market, but had to be completely scrapped. Unintended consequences of government meddling struck again.

¡ñ Incandescent light bulbs aren't in such short supply yet - but they soon will be. In its infinite wisdom, Congress decided to set standards for light bulbs that could not be met by the kinds based on the original Edison design and still widely in use throughout the nation. Beginning January 2012, the 100-watt size was to be effectively banned, to be followed in subsequent years by bulbs of other wattages.

Yes, a last-minute bit of legislation withholds funding for enforcement of the ban; but it's too late to do any good. Manufacturers have already shut down production and moved jobs offshore to Asia, where the expensive substitute CFLs are made. Says ABC News:

But what many Republicans are celebrating as a win for individuals' light-bulb-choosing freedom will probably not save the energy-guzzling bulbs from disappearing off store shelves.

"The industry has moved on," said Larry Lauck, a spokesman for the American Lighting Association.

Lauck said U.S. light bulb manufacturers have already "retooled" their production lines to build more efficient bulbs, he said.

¡ñ Sometimes bureaucratic interference doesn't create an actual shortage of something but simply drives its price sky high over what once were free-market levels. Take the recent case of colchicine, as explained by Slate.com:

A drug called colchicine is all that keeps some 2 million American gout patients from suffering debilitating pain in their toes, elbows, wrists, and fingers. Doctors have prescribed the compound, derived from the seeds of the autumn crocus, for centuries.

But patients who take colchicine woke up with a new symptom recently: a giant pain in the wallet. Until January, colchicine was sold by many companies and cost as little as 10 cents a pill. Now it's available only under the trade name Colcrys, sold by a Philadelphia company called URL Pharma -- for five dollars per pill.

It seems that, although the drug was originally approved in 1974 and had no history of problems, somebody (you get three guesses who) with access to political ears persuaded the FDA to revoke all licenses for its manufacture and require producers to go anew through an approval and licensing procedure. At the normal market price of a dime a pill, it's small wonder that only one company bothered to do so and now can charge any price it pleases.

¡ñ These are, of course, only a few examples of the egregious way in which the government began in January 2009 to control ever more of the American economy - banking, finance, autos, energy production, and whatever else some ¨¦litist types believed they know better how to do than Americans can do for themselves in a free market economy.

¡ñ The Obama DOJ even tried to take away a church or synagogue's right to hire and fire its own spiritual leaders and religious teachers -- stopped only by the unanimous Supreme Court decision earlier this week "exempting" religious organizations from the burden of the pervasive employment rules that govern secular enterprises.

¡ñ Speaking of employment, though, PepsiCo's largest bottling unit is being forced by the EEOC to pay a whopping $3 million-plus fine and offer jobs and training to blacks, against whom the government says Pepsi discriminated by choosing not to hire applicants who didn't pass the company's criminal background check.

Shortages, pricing screw-ups, unintended adverse consequences, micromanagement of citizens' private lives - the Soviets did all that; the Chinese as well; and the North Koreans and Cubans are still at it, all to ill effect. Never before in our nation's history have we moved so quickly and so unthinkingly down this dangerous path. Look around, and keep this in mind when you cast your votes in 2012.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/01/hows_that_government_meddling_workin_out_for_ya.html

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posted January 17, 2012 08:20 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for shura     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
If the EPA weren't hellbent on destroying US based industry and creating an completely outsourced economy, I wouldn't have a problem with it. Unfortunately, rather than nurturing environmentally healthy industry and protecting our air, water and food supplies, they cheerfully do the bidding of raping and pillaging Multinationals. What's more, they have the nerve to greenwash themselves while they do it. Turncoats. Backstabbing hypocrites.

Ethanol btw is a prime example of their bullshiit http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/ 2011/01/epa-approves-higher-ethanol-gas-blend-for-older-cars/1

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posted January 17, 2012 08:37 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for shura     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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A drug called colchicine is all that keeps some 2 million American gout patients from suffering debilitating pain in their toes, elbows, wrists, and fingers. Doctors have prescribed the compound, derived from the seeds of the autumn crocus, for centuries.

But patients who take colchicine woke up with a new symptom recently: a giant pain in the wallet. Until January, colchicine was sold by many companies and cost as little as 10 cents a pill. Now it's available only under the trade name Colcrys, sold by a Philadelphia company called URL Pharma -- for five dollars per pill.

It seems that, although the drug was originally approved in 1974 and had no history of problems, somebody (you get three guesses who) with access to political ears persuaded the FDA to revoke all licenses for its manufacture and require producers to go anew through an approval and licensing procedure. At the normal market price of a dime a pill, it's small wonder that only one company bothered to do so and now can charge any price it pleases.

¡ñ These are, of course, only a few examples of the egregious way in which the government began in January 2009 to control ever more of the American economy - banking, finance, autos, energy production, and whatever else some ¨¦litist types believed they know better how to do than Americans can do for themselves in a free market economy.


So who is the villian here? Big Pharma or Big Government? Some of us are inclined to insist it's the former while others will argue it's the latter. Clearly, it's both. Big Pharma IS the FDA. In what now passes for a "free market" (excuse me while I roll my eyes and snicker) URL Pharma has earned the power to so influence our formerly "of the people, by the people, for the people" government. There is little to no distinction between Big Corp and Big Gov.

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posted January 17, 2012 11:29 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for katatonic     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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posted January 18, 2012 03:03 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
You're not going to get any argument from me about the fact government and pharmaceutical companies have teamed up for political and financial power.

Most of the pharmaceutical companies supported O'BomberCare...for financial reasons. 40,000,000 new customers with government paying the drug bills.

Maybe it's time to trashcan the FDA..for drug approvals and let so called scientists and doctors at the National Institute of Health...who are already paid with the taxpayer's dime...conduct the clinical trials which cost drug companies billions and thereby raise the cost of medicines.

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