[aruanan]

and one critic has noted the inventor has had several brushes with the law over get-rich-quick schemes, the latest in the '90s, but always got short sentences and never went to jail.

His "scheme" worked very well. The "brush with the law" resulted over the government changing definitions of what constituted "waste," redefining in mid-operation his raw materials as "toxic" wastes and, so, referring to all the products as "toxic wastes" and then charging him with inadequate handling of and use of materials that, but for their redefinition, were no less innocuous than they were before the legal word games, with new associated penalties, started. The application of law can change a plus to a minus instantly without having any real effect on reality except to make sure that the one who was initially on one side of the law and blameless is suddenly on the other side and screwed.

[Kevmo]

Don’t forget that Rossi paid a fuel tax on what he sold, so the guvmint was complicit in allowing that it was a fuel in the first place.

[citizen]

His [Rossi's] "scheme" worked very well. The "brush with the law" resulted over the government changing definitions of what constituted "waste," redefining in mid-operation his raw materials as "toxic" wastes and, so, referring to all the products as "toxic wastes" and then charging him with inadequate handling of and use of materials that, but for their redefinition, were no less innocuous than they were before the legal word games, with new associated penalties, started. The application of law can change a plus to a minus instantly without having any real effect on reality except to make sure that the one who was initially on one side of the law and blameless is suddenly on the other side and screwed.

This is also how enviromental regulations are manipulated in the Obama Regime, to the detriment of all.