Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
And that would be $6.8 million in fines, to be specific.
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.
Hat tip to a wonderful blog we’ve browsed & linked many times before, Small Dead Animals, a Canadian blog. Which offers up the most appropriate Atlas Shrugged quote, and headlines it “America’s EPA Absolutely Out of Control.”
Are you wincing in national shame yet?
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“See – I didn’t raise taxes on anyone. I just fined those who didn’t follow regulations! Big oil deserves to be fined if it can’t follow directions.”
“Next up. A new fine on vehicles who don’t run on water vapor. Water vapor would be green. I’m only doing this for the future of the whole world.”
- tgoon | 01/11/2012 @ 10:16I wonder what the fine would be if they just claimed that they had indeed used a biofuel that doesn’t exist? If it was less than the fine for not using…
I see an opportunity here, start a business manufacturing/selling biofuels that don’t exist. Talk about low overhead…ChaChing…
- tim | 01/11/2012 @ 10:28I really don’t see what the big deal is about this, guys. Every piece of liberal legislation contains more fantasy than the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Liberal education policy requires us to believe that all children are capable of the exact same intellectual achievements (“if we put the bright kids in with the borderline-retarded, the bright kids will help them learn!”). Liberal social policy mandates that we pretend large numbers of people, when offered a free ride, won’t take it (“a hand up, not a hand out”). Liberal fiscal policy forces us to act, under penalty of law, as if the solution to not having any money is to go even further into debt (“Keynesianism”). And so on.
Forcing people to pretend to use a product that doesn’t exist is just the next logical step. I’m with tim — let’s start a company making nonexistent biofuels, hire a disabled transsexual woman of color as our lobbyist, suck up to the Obama administration, and promise them a 50% kickback to the ol’ campaign war chest. We’ll be swimming in billions of taxpayer dollars in no time.
- Severian | 01/11/2012 @ 10:45“hire a disabled transsexual woman of color as our lobbyist”
Now we’re getting in the spirit!
As far as the kickback, we’ll go all “Chicago” and promise yes, but deliver to someone who we’d rather see running the big show.
When they come calling we’ll just them “What!?! We promised something we had no intentions of delivering, it sounded really great, which made you feel good even though the results sucked. Welcome to our world. Now please leave, we have to file for bankruptcy and count our billions”
- tim | 01/12/2012 @ 09:54