Rep @PeteOlson & @RepJoeBarton want to expand government with the #RFSMandate

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Rep @PeteOlson & @RepJoeBarton want to expand government with the #RFSMandate

By: Ben Howe (Diary) | June 11th, 2013 at 07:11 PM

 

Where to begin with the monstrosity that is the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS Mandate)? It is rare that one gets the opportunity to highlight a government initiative so awful, that I can say without an ounce of hyperbole, that it is starving children. STARVING. CHILDREN.

 

How? And what does that have to do with Olson and Barton? Well let’s start at the beginning of this merry adventure.

 

In the first decade of this century, our brilliant leaders embarked on a quest to shove off the global warming that isn’t happening, and decided that they’d take some steps to force us to be less dependent on foreign oil and more dependent on corn. Ethanol as it is known, was subsidized and encouraged with great gusto in an attempt to greenify our roads.

 

In 2005, they took that encouragement a step further by mandating that a percentage of fuel be blended with ethanol. Up to 15 percent blending actually. Why only that much? Because any more can damage engines, which will be great for greenifying our roads because our cars will be broken.

 

But ok, so they required a blend and they stopped short of destroying our cars. Bravo