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May 6, 2008
First Efforts to Repeal Biofuel Boondoggle
Just last Christmas, Congress passed another bill ramming more ethanol down our throats. But already some pols are trying to reduce the new requirements in light of the skyrocketing food prices that unsurprisingly resulted from forcing us to give our food to our cars.
Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) is going to introduce a bill to abandon last year's ethanol bill. Unfortunately, it has no chance of passing:
House Democratic leaders have given no indication of retreating from the ethanol requirement.
Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) is regrettably chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee. The reason he opposes lightening up on new ethanol requirements is priceless: it could "lead to unintended consequences."
Too bad clowns like Dingleberry didn't think of unintended consequences before they started imposing biofuels in the first place.
When people get hungry enough, the boondoggle will end. Similarly, gas will eventually become so expensive that the restrictions on drilling that have been imposed to appease envirowackos will be lifted. It might take a large mob of villagers closing in on Capitol Hill with torches ablaze, but it will happen.
On that joyous day, environmental mania will be over. If only we could just end it now, before the unnecessary hardship becomes extreme.
On a tip from mega.
Posted by Van Helsing at May 6, 2008 8:48 PM
Comments
John Dingell - hmm that make him a dingbat?
Posted by: hutchrun at May 6, 2008 9:28 PM
a priori or a posteriori, hmm?
what does the education lobby prefer?
Posted by: OregonGuy at May 6, 2008 10:15 PM
Posted by: BURNING HOT at May 7, 2008 2:05 AM
I wonder if ADM will Spam the thread like they did the last time this topic came up. I had no idea VH was so influential... at least in the biofuel welfare and tranny grievance communities.
Posted by: V the K at May 7, 2008 4:43 AM
They should call it BIO FOOLS.
Weve got plenty of coal which can (and the US military currently is) turning into fuel. COAL not FOOD !!
http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,164531,00.html
Posted by: General Jack D. Ripper at May 7, 2008 5:09 AM
"I have become convinced that one useless [person] is a disgrace, two are a law firm, and three or more become a Congress " John Adams
" If we were directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we would soon want for bread." -Thomas Jefferson
Our founding Fathers words are being borne out, now more than ever.
Posted by: James F McEnanly at May 7, 2008 6:57 AM
Wake up America. This biofuels scam is a power grab concocted by the left. By tying the price of corn to the price of oil and then having Soro's cronies at the Chicago commodities markets bid up the price of both, they will topple not just the US economy but all free market economies. Then the ruling class can seize power and institute their policies.
Posted by: Tom at May 7, 2008 8:37 AM
"Then the ruling class can seize power..."
Tom, doesn't the term "ruling class" suggest that they are ALREADY in power?
Posted by: KHarn at May 9, 2008 1:24 PM
