We Don’t Need No Stinking French Fry Grease

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A legal setback for the Crazy People;

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cannot impose a mandate for a non-existent product and then punish companies for failing to use said non-existent product, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled.
That non-existent product? Cellulosic biofuels, a type of ethanol made from non-food sources such as wood chips, switchgrass, and non-edible feedstock.
The court ruled that the EPA can set renewable fuel production standards as a means to stimulate economic development, but it cannot punish companies who fail to meet those standards.
“Do a good job, cellulosic fuel producers. If you fail, we’ll fine your customers,” the judges wrote.

20 Replies to “We Don’t Need No Stinking French Fry Grease”

  1. The EPA’s pontifications are reminiscent of the directives under Stalin’s five year plans described in “The Gulag Archipelago”. Increase beef production by 50% ? Solution: slaughter most of the cattle. Build a canal connecting two river systems in 5 years? Solution: build it too shallow to carry any barges that can move any useable material. Meet fertilizer production and shipping quotas to collectivized farms? Solution, pick the stuff up in a truck, drive 10km down the road and dump it in the river thereby poisoning the fish then come back for another load. Bureaucrats’ bone-headed hubris is simply without limit.

  2. I read an article about this,producing alcohol from wood waste,in Popular Mechanics back in the early 1980’s. I always wondered what had happened to this idea which they claimed was the answer to the problem of reliance on foreign oil.
    As usual, when tried on an industrial scale,it’s not economically viable.
    The Court showed rare common sense,you can’t fine someone for not using something that doesn’t exist. Allah almighty!

  3. The EPA technology lives in Obama’s rectum. The AGW hockey stick creates goals that can’t be measured except in Gores mind. Why be surprised that it’s all a childish fantasy. Cue the Clown cars for a round of Golf
    “which are largely wish lists for future developments using technology that is not yet created” so said the Court

  4. The EPA is one of a number of organizations that the U.S. can do without. Fat chance that will happen with Obama at the helm. The USA is doomed. I really do hate saying that but I can’t see a light in their tunnel. Four more years of this nutjob will cause irreparable harm (as if the current harm level isn’t enough). Preaching to the choir for the most part – I know….

  5. In it’s ruling I don’t suppose the court touched upon on the fact the constitution gives no jurisdiction to the Feds to directly interfere in commerce – that the interstate commerce act is, and has been, abused and arbitrarily misinterpreted to allow horrendous anti constitutional jurisdiction raiding. No, didn’t think so, they’re part of the rot.

  6. DrD, that was oh so well said. Collectivist mentality exactly. No stupid bureaucrat or those with an leftist agenda cares whether it actually works or not, as long as they can control the people.
    In 1929, in the fall, the year the village where my great uncles lived was collectivized, all the grain the farmers had stored up from the year’s harvest was confiscated and collected and hauled by wagon to a rail point about 40 kilometers away and dumped on a pile by the rail yard. Grain from other villages in the region was also confiscated and dumped on the same pile. It was not covered. Shortly after it began to rain and snow and the pile rotted.
    Or, like we were told in 2008 when we visited the Ukraine, half the fertilizer was stolen and used on the collectives workers private plots and much of the rest was blown out in a small area of the fields. Today, the farmers, farming for themselves, get much better crops using half of the previous pre 1990 fertilizer usage.
    Or, how about a huge factory built near a small river near the old village. No one gave any thought to how they were going to power the plant. So, in 1982, when my uncle was there, this factory shell had been sitting there slowly deteriorating away.
    This what happens when bureaucrats and governments supplant private enterprise.
    Btw, one of my great uncles spent 5 years in forced labour on that canal, the White Sea canal, and his health was ruined. Then released and within a month or so rearrested and sentenced to another 5 years in a labour camp near Perm. He did not survive that term.
    Brain M, unfortunately the history of government practices would suggest that even if a RINO government like Karl Rove would like was elected the EPA would remain as it is.

  7. There goes Obama’s plan to finance a Death Star by levying a tax on every American who doesn’t own a unicorn.

  9. But, it’s gonna work okay in Ontario. Just ask our farm organizations.
    They have told us that ethanol made from our straw, cornstalks, etc. represents ‘exciting economic opportunities’ for farmers.
    So that means it’s economically viable, and, good soil science, right?
    Right?

  11. Eco-homes DOUBLED our energy bills: Resident rocked by £1,600 charge after just six months
    The Pavilion Gardens in Bradford, West Yorkshire, was completed in 2011
    Residents at the eco-friendly complex were promised cheaper electricity bills
    But many tenants have found their bills are double the annual average
    Investigation has been launched as council promises reimbursements
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2273321/Eco-homes-DOUBLED-energy-bills-Resident-rocked-1-600-charge-just-months.html

  12. My greatest fear is the taxes they will put on dilithium.
    But seriously, the insanity of punishing people for not using a non-existent or workable product is the kind one would see in the Stalinist era. That it would even be entertained is just as insane.

  13. My greatest fear is the taxes they will put on dilithium.
    Posted by: Osumashi Kinyobe
    Right behind taxes on dihydrogenoxide.

  15. The EPA seems to be ignoring this ruling:
    “EPA Games: One of the stunts pulled by the EPA is to apply court decisions it considers favorable to expanding its powers and ignore court decisions it considers unfavorable. Since there are 11 Courts of Appeal in the Federal system, and 89 District Courts in the 50 states, which are subordinate to the Court of Appeals in that region, the EPA has developed an imaginative game. For example, if the Second Court of Appeals, covering the mid-Atlantic states and the District of Columbia, makes a ruling EPA considers unfavorable, and the District Court for Alaska makes a ruling the EPA considers favorable, in its regulations, the EPA may apply the District Court ruling for the nation except for the area covered by the Second Court of Appeals. This has been done, but usually for issues that do not have powerful opponents.
    It appears that the EPA will ignore a ruling by the Second Court of Appeals and require petroleum refiners to use cellulosic ethanol in their gasoline blends for 2013, even though the Court “found that the EPA had abused the law with ‘an unreasonable exercise of agency discretion,’ and it vacated the 2012 cellulosic ethanol mandate.” The favored industrial plant is in Mississippi, technically outside of the jurisdiction of the Second Court of Appeals, and the EPA may not make its regulations binding on the few refineries within the jurisdiction of the Second Court of Appeals. Who says the EPA cannot be imaginative in playing legal games? Too bad it is not as accomplished in producing science. Please see Articles # 1 & #2, the above quote comes from Article #1.”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/02/03/weekly-climate-and-enegy-news-roundup/

  17. The Environmental Parasitic Agency (EPA) should not even have the right to “set renewable fuel production standards as a means to stimulate economic development”. Economic development should be “stimulated” by consumer demand, and NOTHING ELSE. Ever. If you want a productive economy that puts food on the table, that is.
    To impose a regulation for use of a non-existent product shows that the organization is out of touch with reality – the hippies are in charge. Maybe they’ve heard that ridiculous slogan “politics is the art of the possible” one too many times, and they can’t even identify what is physically impossible.
    A similar matter is the recent regulation for car manufacturers to cut fuel consumption by 50% over the next decade or two. What if they’re already close to maximum fuel efficiency now? What if the technology to improve fuel efficiency isn’t invented during that period? Progress does not arise from coercion.
    The EPA might as well try to require the Sun to rise earlier every morning.
    Let’s remember that while Ohbummer may be trying to put the final nails in the American coffin, the rot started many years before he came along.

  19. But they can still fine me for not purchasing the totally-existent product that is “health insurance that an individual can afford”?

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