If you want to see how bad it's become the past decade, I invite you to revisit this old article from 2012 a colleague shared from his memories 10 years ago, and how we still haven't addressed it in 2022.
"Someday cellulosic fuel may be available ... but today the fuel doesn't exist"
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And this my favorite quote, a predictoin which became 100% true, and you can found countless others regarding this non-sense from our top, US scientific and engineering societies.
QUOTE: _'The National Academy of Sciences predicted last year that by 2022, EPA's mandated cellulosic supplies would not materialize "unless innovative technologies are developed that unexpectedly improve the cellulosic biofuels production process." In other words, if you don't build it, they will not come.'_
For those unfamiliar, the number of petitions rejected over this by the EPA has now reached no less than 65 as of 2022-Feb, and now yet another lawsuit is pending against the EPA. I cannot emphasize enough how the US is now ruled by politicians who purposely
ignore the science, engineering and realities. We literally are now a country of federal agencies with politically appointed leaders who don't care to accept
expert opinion and avoid
public discourse on the matter.
This is actually against the law, and that's why even the Biden administration is losing lawsuits ... even over stuff that started during W. This
'ball starts rolling,' and it just doesn't end. Things don't exist. They won't exist. We're a laughing stock as a result. But most of all ... we're going bankrupt as a nation literally trying to mandate things that actually do
not help the environment!
It's like with
@hemightbejeremy's comment about E15/88 octane, it's 100% false and easily disproven, but ... we're going to do it because,
"Biofuels! Zero impact!"
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It's amazing how this is also sold as
'reduced' or
'zero impact.' And it's why the Mexican leadership is building refineries. Because the US is destroying its own infrastructure in a flurry of mandates that have no scientific basis, let alone no environmental benefit. It's literally
'because we said so' logic, and ... I'm just too educated, both in physics and civics, to vote for any clown pushing this BS.
Why do people literally
'bow down' to the
'because we said so' from US Federal Agencies when we have a massive, respective, scientific community that is saying otherwise?! We're screwing up this country ... and badly! And stop thinking it's just the Republicans doing it! Start realizing the hypocrisy of buying more foreign petroleum while you're at it if you're trying to destroy domestic energy and refining!