The EPA Nazis Are Extorting $86 Million A Day From Oil Refineries For Not Using Bio-fuels That DO NOT EXIST!
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Obama Administration Continues to Force Refineries to Use Imaginary Biofuels
WASHINGTON , May 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today denied the American Petroleum Institute’s (API’s) request to eliminate mandates for biofuels that do not exist, and the agency continues to fine refiners for not using them.
“EPA’s mandate is out of touch with reality and forces refiners to pay a penalty for not using imaginary biofuels,” said API Director of Downstream and Industry Operations Bob Greco. “EPA’s unrealistic mandate is effectively an added tax on making gasoline.”
The Clean Air Act requires EPA to determine the mandated volume of cellulosic biofuels each year at “the projected volume available.” However, in 2011 EPA required refineries to use 6.6 million gallons of cellulosic biofuels even though, according to EPA’s own records, none were commercially available. EPA today denied API’s 2011 petition for reconsideration of the mandate and continues to mandate these nonexistent biofuels this year.
“The fact that EPA continues to mandate these biofuels that do not exist is regulatory absurdity and bad public policy,” Greco said.
API represents more than 500 oil and natural gas companies, leaders of a technology-driven industry that supplies most of America’s energy, supports 9.2 million U.S. jobs and 7.7 percent of the U.S. economy, delivers more than $86 million a day in revenue to our government, and, since 2000, has invested more than $2 trillion in U.S. capital projects to advance all forms of energy, including alternatives.
Read The New York Times Article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/10/business/energy-environment...
Read More: http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2012/05/obama...
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mwg0735 2012/06/22 16:37:17
In a striking example of how President Obama’s anti-coal agenda is affecting American families and businesses, a recent auction resulted in an eight-fold increase in electricity capacity prices from 2012-13 to 2015-16, when electric generators will be required to comply with the EPA's new Utility MACT rule.
The EPA's many new rules and regulations have already resulted in the closure of coal-fired power plants across the country. The auction shows how these plant closures will affect how much Americans pay for electricity. One of the country’s largest regional power grid operators, PJM Interconnection, recently announced the results of its annual auction that locks in electricity capacity prices three years in advance. It set capacity prices at $136 per megawatt (MW) across the PJM service area, which includes parts of Illinois and other states in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic region. The price is eight times higher than the $16 per MW price that was set for 2012-2013.
According to PJM, the “auction was impac...
In a striking example of how President Obama’s anti-coal agenda is affecting American families and businesses, a recent auction resulted in an eight-fold increase in electricity capacity prices from 2012-13 to 2015-16, when electric generators will be required to comply with the EPA's new Utility MACT rule.
The EPA's many new rules and regulations have already resulted in the closure of coal-fired power plants across the country. The auction shows how these plant closures will affect how much Americans pay for electricity. One of the country’s largest regional power grid operators, PJM Interconnection, recently announced the results of its annual auction that locks in electricity capacity prices three years in advance. It set capacity prices at $136 per megawatt (MW) across the PJM service area, which includes parts of Illinois and other states in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic region. The price is eight times higher than the $16 per MW price that was set for 2012-2013.
According to PJM, the “auction was impacted by an unprecedented amount of planned generation retirements (more than 14,000 MW) driven largely by environmental regulations, which drove prices higher than last year’s auction.”
1. Jack up the price to $6 dollars a gallon.
2. American public goes crazy, wants an answer.
3. EPA exposed
4. ????
5. Profit.
Penalized for not using fuels that don't exist.
I think this crystallizes just how dysfunctional and delusion the current administration is.
It blows me away how the gov treats the companies that make or provide the things we HAVE TO HAVE for our economy to run then wonders what is wrong with the economy.
When we tried o determine what the LEGAL grounds for nuisance dust is there is NO guideline. NO legal description of it at all. No parts per million numbers, no nothing.
One of the issues was our pile of spent sand. We paid hundreds of dollars to be told that it tests the same as brand new sand. Great we can sell it instead of having to hire an abatement co right? NO!! According to the EPA despite the test results (a test they made us do) it is hazardous waste. So when I work weekends I apparently allow my children to paly in hazardous waste.....
We spent over 25K dollars to become "compliant". That is an entry level salary for a year. That is someone we can not hire even if we want to and for WHAT???
The EPA is a joke that is really not funny. Power hungry bunch of nobodies.
And yes, the asnd was to go to a local landfill. I found that funny (not really ha ha, but funny-ish). To spend THOUSANDS to take CLEAN sand to a landfill....
*fully concur BTW!!