Posted on 10/01/2013 10:14:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
As the death toll for Government Shutdown Apocalypse 2013 continues to grow, it appears that the EPA’s plans to make it even more expensive for Americans to drive a car were “shut down” by the government shutdown.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will take one of the biggest hits of any federal agency if the government shuts down this week, operating with under 7 percent of its employees, according to guidance issued by the agency.
Just think of how much less the EPA will be able to do with only 7 percent of its employees. That EPA SWAT Team may have to sit out the week. Someone else will have to send $700,000 to Thailand’s pig farmers. And someone else will have to hike fuel prices.
Among those furloughed would be most workers at the Office of Air and Radiation, which is in charge of writing and implementing most of the EPA’s major air pollution rules. The clock would also stop, for now, on the EPA’s eagerly-awaited proposal on renewable fuel volume standards for 2014.
Who exactly is eagerly awaiting this proposal? Drivers who can’t wait to pay a buck more for gas.
Gas prices will increase about $1 per gallon by 2015 and take a $550 billion bite out of Americans’ take-home pay when the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) increases the ethanol mandate past the 10 percent “blend wall.”
Sadly the evil government shutdown may delay the environmentalist push for Electric Poverty in America
“People are not going to be able to be working on these rules at home,” said Dina Kruger, an environmental regulation consultant and former climate change director at the EPA, who worked at the agency when the government shut down in 1996.
Sure.
EPA employees won’t write arbitrary rules that steal money out of the pockets of hardworking Americans unless the Americans pay them first.
“Permitting does not qualify (as essential), so people should expect delays in permit processing and other licensing and approval processes,” said Scott Fulton, former EPA general counsel until January this year and an attorney at Beveridge and Diamond.
“This is a decidedly bad thing for the country. Everybody pays, including the regulated community.”
Gulag employees furloughed. Gulag prisoners waiting for meals hit hardest. There is a solution though. Free the prisoners.
ANy helpful info on how food inspections will be affected? The only info I hear is from hard leftists where I am who say this shutdown will mean food inspection will disappear and food will all be toxic and contaminated and we will have to throw out all the food we have. Anyone have some actually useful info on this?
Meat packing inspectors are unaffected. Other FDA inspections are considered non-essential and are suspended.
Well, he certainly got way more votes than a sane country would have given him but I certainly do not believe he truly won.
That junk is ruining weed whackers, too.
My experience is that it’s mostly cheap Chinese sourced plastic fuel lines at the root of the problem.
I’ve got a 20 yr old whacker with a Japanese Mitsubishi engine that has run fine on E10 all its life.
Really? What’s it doing to the fuel lines?
They basically get gummy / dissolve from the alcohol.
Thanks....can they be easily fixed? I bought some premixed fuel/oil (no ethanol) for my weed whacker after I was told the fuel might be the problem. It worked for just a little while, but now is back to running poorly. The spool doesn’t spin fast enough to cut anything.
Yes the lines are easy to change out.
Hopefully none of the swarf has migrated into the carburetor.
Go on eBay and search for “fuel lines” and your model whacker.
Couple bucks and sent by USPS pretty cheap.
Are you kidding?
THanks again!
I My 20-year old Shindaiwa C-35 brush cutter was smoking, puking, cutting out, and wouldn't idle. Every year I had to replace the swinging fuel filter-pickup because the gas had wrecked the EPDM elastomers and caused the tube to tear or collapse thus cutting off the flow of fuel. It cost me $25 every year for a new pickup. I've got several on the shelf.
I just replaced the carburetor on the bushwhacker, put the new gas into it with the new pickup, and it runs better than it has since the first year I had it. I set it up with a string head set to about 14" along with a three point blade for obstructions, which run together takes a lot of power. Then I ran it over two acres of bunch grasses without a hitch. Awesome brush cutter, once again.
Not on my Shindaiwa. It's a big rubber plug with a wrinkle belly section that leads to the filter head. It's all one unit made in Japan.
Why is the EPA allowed to do this?
Its people control. It is all about people control.
BTW Have you heard that now we are anticipating another ice age?
I wish I was that handy....would save me a bit of money.
:)
Thanks SeekAndFind.
Adding more Ethanol to the gasoline will put many cars on the side of the road.
Only the 2013 cars & forward can handle that much
E, and cars older than 2000 will have very expensive problems.
The fuel lines we all have in our cars will not stand up to the additional Ethanol.
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