Originally posted by russj at Cellulosic Ethanol SNAFU

Just the bare facts:

• EPA mandate for 2011: 6,000,000 gallons
  
• Gallons produced so far: 0
  
• Government solution: $1.13 fine for each gallon not produced
  
• oh ... they're calling it a "cellulosic waiver" -- not a fine -- cost to be passed on to the consumer.
  

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It's breaking now, so no details yet. But this is a good start to the court fight against Obamacare!

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They're lying to you.
A citizen of the United States has a public right of transit through the navigable airspace.

And not that while federal officials can make regulations (especially in conjunction with defense officials) such regulations must be in the public interestSo when "the public" tells you it is not in their interest to be groped and/or ( Read more... )

In addition to granting waivers for disaster contingency plans the Obama administration Department of the Interior also failed to properly inspect the rig once it was operating.
LOS ANGELES - The federal agency responsible for ensuring that the Deepwater Horizon was operating safely before it exploded last month fell well short of its own policy ( Read more... )

Not since Washington reacted wrongly to the onset of the Great Depression have so many bad policies been proposed so quickly.

In a new round of government intervention proposed by President Obama, the federal government would not only regulate financial firms and markets but also have a role in running them as well.
Under Obama's plan, the Federal ( Read more... )

I suppose it is fitting that Halloween is approaching as the left tries to scare us (yet again) about "deregulation".

As always, the facts are to be found elsewhere.

IMO, if you want a single point of failure, this is it:
The Community Reinvestment Act. This 1977 law compels banks to make loans to poor borrowers who often cannot repay them. Banks ( Read more... )

I was reading about major economic trends over the past 30 years and what were major influences and someone mentioned telecom deregulation and how people don't even think of "long distance" any more ( Read more... )

Unfortunately, I think the answer is yes whether it is called "net neutrality" or "fee for service".
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department on Thursday said Internet service providers should be allowed to charge a fee for priority Web traffic ( Read more... )

No, not really. Just hemp. Which the government continues to treat the same as marijuana. Thus the series of hoops farmers must jump through in order to obtain permission to grow it.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - North Dakota issued the nation's first licenses to grow industrial hemp Tuesday to two farmers who still must meet federal requirements before ( Read more... )

I suppose we should simply be grateful that we are no longer being taxed to pay for the Spanish-American war on our telephone bills. We are, however, still paying to "bring telephone service" to "rural" areas of the United States. You know, places like Malibu, California.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Cellular subscribers are paying hundreds of millions ( Read more... )