Damn straight it is. Even the proponents admit that it would never be achieved but they wanted it anyway. They just want it to use as a club.
I despise these Gaia worshipers and their fetish with so called renewable energy (economic despotism).
Same bunch that worships the earth is all for murdering babies via abortion. Truly, it is mental illness.
The left will only be happy when 100% of electricity is made from unicorn milk.
Just great more money flushed down the toilet for more stupid projects that do not work. It is bad enough in the small town that I live in the UP where the City Council took money from an Enterprise Fund to make sure the money was in the pension fund. Another state mandated fund had money taken from there too. so the police department cut in half, water and sewer funds in the red. as one of many taxpayers we are getting pissed off.
As a form of derision, maybe we should refer to these as “Don Quixote Laws”!?
Pawlenty signs bill increasing ethanol content in gasoline
by Laura McCallum, Minnesota Public Radio
May 10, 2005
Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Rep. Greg Davids celebrate the signing of the ethanol bill on Tuesday. (MPR Photo/Laura McCallum)
Minnesota is the first state with a law mandating 20-percent ethanol use by the year 2013.
http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2005/05/10_ap_ethanol/
thanks, Guv T-Paw.(R-rino)
What are they teaching students in law schools? Certainly not the Constitution and its history.
The statement above from the referenced article must be based on the PC interpretation of the Commerce Clause by FDR's activist justices in Wickard v. Filburn. The problem is that FDR's justices wrongly ignored that not only had Thomas Jefferson clarified the limits of Congress Congress Clause powers in the favor of the states, but the Supreme Court had also previously officially clarified those limits.
Using terms like "does not extend" and "exclusively," Thomas Jefferson had clearly indicated that Congress has no business sticking its big nose into intrastate commerce.
“For the power given to Congress by the Constitution does not extend to the internal regulation of the commerce of a State, (that is to say of the commerce between citizen and citizen,) which remain exclusively (emphases added) with its own legislature; but to its external commerce only, that is to say, its commerce with another State, or with foreign nations, or with the Indian tribes.” –Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson’s Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank : 1791.
The Supreme Court had reflected on Jefferson's clarification of the limits of Congress Commerce Clause powers in Gibbons v. Ogden as evidenced by the following excerpt.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. (emphasis added)" --Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Sadly, since state lawmakers get the same anti-state sovereignty indoctrination in law school that everybody else does, they don't question when misguided judges make unconstitutional decisions that weaken state sovereignty.