FEDERAL GOV'T SLAPS FINE FOR NOT USING BIOFUEL -- THAT DOES NOT EXIST!

This is not a Democrat/Republican, left/right problem. It’s a federal government that’s too big, too powerful problem.

And both Democrat/Republican, left/right have made it that way!

A Fine for Not Using a Biofuel That Doesn’t Exist

David Eggen for The New York Times

Refiners are required to blend motor fuel with cellulosic biofuel made from wood chips or the inedible parts of plants like corn cobs.

By MATTHEW L. WALD

Published: January 9, 2012

WASHINGTON — When the companies that supply motor fuel close the books on 2011, they will pay about $6.8 million in penalties to the Treasury because they failed to mix a special type of biofuel into their gasoline and diesel as required by law.

At the South Dakota plant, Poet is testing its technology and the economics of producing ethanol from plant waste.

But there was none to be had. Outside a handful of laboratories and workshops, the ingredient, cellulosic biofuel, does not exist.

In 2012, the oil companies expect to pay even higher penalties for failing to blend in the fuel, which is made from wood chips or the inedible parts of plants like corncobs. Refiners were required to blend 6.6 million gallons into gasoline and diesel in 2011 and face a quota of 8.65 million gallons this year.

“It belies logic,” Charles T. Drevna, the president of the National Petrochemicals and Refiners Association, said of the 2011 quota. And raising the quota for 2012 when there is no production makes even less sense, he said.

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