GO SIMON
Posted on 10/08/2002 8:59:00 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Edited on 04/12/2004 5:45:23 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
WASHINGTON -- A major battle has flared over granting a liability waiver to producers of the gasoline additive MTBE, and it alone could sink the energy bill in the waning congressional session.
Environmental groups and MTBE producers differ over whether this waiver, sought by House leaders, would make it impossible for communities to collect damages from underground contamination.
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You want to be able to sue a company for making MTBE if it gets into the ground water, but...
you mandate that MTBE or ethanol be included in every single gallon of gasoline sold in order to protect the environment...
If I were the company making MTBE, I think that I will retool and make sandals instead, because there are going to be a lot of drivers that will be walking instead!!!
This report is a GLARING LIE!!!
Although this is the one AND ONLY issue I agree with both our silly senators, I was present at a meeting of the Regional Council of Rural Counties (RCRC) in Redding in 1998 when a deputy director of the Fed EPA and chief legal counsel answered this question of an Amador County Supervisor:
"Why is this trade-off between supposedly cleaning our air, while poisoning our finite drinkable water supplies being so aggressively pushed by your agency?"
Her answer:
"Because we were sued by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) under the Clean Air Act, signed by President Bush!"
Now... those of us that have been in government understand how this works... The NRDC and EPA go into a huddle behind very thick closed doors.
NRDC says: "Why aren't you enforcing this aspect of the Clean Air Act that we worked so hard to get passed and signed?"
EPA says: "Well there isn't any public support for aggressive enforcement and the industry doesn't like the expense of changing their refineries. Now, if someone were to file suit to force the issue and win a judgement, then we could act as you wish. As you know, your legal fees are paid by us, win or lose!"
NRDC says: "Ok, and we'll use this a leverage to get industry cooperation."
Meanwhile, the industry discovers that a chemical waste by product of refining gasoline, that it has been paying huge costs to legally dispose of due to enviral regulations, makes a cheap oxygenate, turning a huge liability into a huge asset!!! A hugely profitable asset, so they're all ready when NRDC comes knocking on their meeting room door!.
And that's how EnvironMentalist Litigators and Alegators, along with an industry trying to find a "WIN-WIN" solution to pressure from government agents... threatens to poison the most valuable commodity on earth (potable water) while actually lowering mileage and INCREASING POLLUTION, but putting out media baloney that they are clearing the air.
Now, finally, Boxer and Feinstein realize the cost of this clean-up could swallow-up the "Super Fund" in a "New York Minute!"
Could it be so the clever bastards can march around US cities, yelling "NO BLOOD FOR OIL?"
Anti-knock... as in the lead that was forced out by EnvironMentalists, as in DDT that was forced out by EnvironMentalists so we can't prevent West Nile Virus and Malaria?
Doesn't anybody see the parallels between the mutually America hating Muslim extremist terrorists and the America hating EnvironMentalist terrorists? No! Because none dare question EnvironMentalism or MuslimTerrorism, one a Pagan religion and the other a total mixture of Church & State totalitarianism!!!
Where are the Feminazi's? Where is the ACLU? Where are the Kennedy Democrats, the Truman Democrats and even the LBJ Democrats? Are they all now cowardly Mc Govern/Dasshole Demonicrats that wish the USA to live in fear and an environmental waste land like formerly Socialist/Communist Eastern Germany?
No wonder Jim Robinson finally switched from the Democrat Party! I congratulate him, once again!!!
Yup! Nobody's clean in this monumental bamboozle! But you remember this... WHO STARTED ALL THIS CRAPOLA?
Who has relentlessly, ruthlessly and remorselessly pushed, prodded and pounded until they have turned our major federal and state agencies into their errand boys & girls? Nearly every Gestapo-like action by a formerly somewhat benevolent American government can be traced back to these liberals and envirowhacko Socialist prigs!
Who has manipulated and coerced the private sector corporations even better than Jesse Jackson ever could, into one lose-lose situation after another, until they finally turn to these falsely perceived win-win boondawgles?
As things have turned out... You are right! But they didn't start out that way and cornered corporations are kinda like cornered animals... they look for any way possible to survive when constantly cornered at every turn!!!
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who is among the Senate negotiators on the energy bill, said she was outraged that House negotiators had even proposed the MTBE waiver.
"MTBE is a clear environmental hazard and a potential human carcinogen, and in my view providing a liability exemption would be a serious mistake," she said.
Sir Wasp are we living in a separate world re MTBE?
Remember only a few years ago we and the KSFO people were called Right Wing Whackos who wanted to pollute the air by removing MTBE.
This article will be sent to every lying enviro whacko to called me dangerous for wanting this poison removed from our gas.
One final sideline, most 76 stations in N. Kali are not selling nor pumping MTBE for several months. Their gasoline is MTBE free.
Sorry sir Wasp, but the corporate types were way out ahead of the enviros with these manipulations, even in the 19th Century.
Stay well - Stay safe - stay armed - Yorktown
One final sideline, most 76 stations in N. Kali are not selling nor pumping MTBE for several months. Their gasoline is MTBE free.
Hmmm!
Yeah... I watched the Rock Ribbed Repellican Rockerfeller show on PBS, last night. Seen ol baldie Robber Baron hisself, I did.
I observe greed and corruption in corporate environmentalism has rapidly equalled, but now surpassed corporate multi-nationalism. They now reign supreme by not only winning the legislative, but the public relations/media and court of public opinion battles.
They are now the hulking giants stalking the earth, seeking whom they may over-regulate, overburden and devour. The "C" corps are as they always have been... reactionary pragmatists, cutting deals to constantly cut their losses in an increasingly hostile environment toward the biggest governmental program of the USA... Capitalism, or what's left of it after taxes.
The rest of us cerfs out here working in the field (so to speak) are too busy and tired to raise our heads and that's a good thing because the live fire between these giants would blow our heads off if we are dumb enough to rise up and question any of it.
Plus, we just don't have the resources. And if we did and came up with the ideas in an authorship exercise, they would not respond as they, including academia are too heavily invested in the status quo. They are all very afraid of losing out to any idea whose time has come!!!
Thou art a Hugo-not?
"Nothing is so powerful as an idea whose time has come."
Well, we both know that, so I guess I have to live it. You see, I don't have a choice. It's just that kind of thing.
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