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More Evidence the Ethanol
Mandate Hurts the Economy by Jordan Candler
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Friday Top Headlines 
by Political Editors: Senate blocks four immigration plans, deepening stalemate on “Dreamers” (Bloomberg).
In wake of Florida school shooting, Trump calls for culture that “embraces the dignity of life” (Daily Signal) .
No, there haven’t been 18 school shootings in 2018. That number is flat wrong. (The Washington Post) .
Flashback 30 years: Guns were in schools … and nothing happened (PJ Media) .
Pure evil: Writer uses Parkland shooting to justify eugenics (The Resurgent) .
Red flags missed: Cops sent to Cruz’s home 36 times, school expelled him, FBI was warned (Fox News) .
Police: No connection found between school shooter and white nationalist group (The Daily Wire) .
Here we go again: Former Playboy model claims affair with Trump (The New Yorker) .
CDC: U.S. fertility rate below replacement for 9th straight year (CNS News) .
Essentially calling Trump a bigot for legal purposes, Fourth Circuit Court strikes down Trump travel ban (The Daily Wire) .
Mitt Romney announces bid for U.S. Senate in Utah (NBC News) .
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Trump’s gas tax would wipe out 60% of tax cut benefit for individuals, analyst estimates (CNBC) .
Report: International relief charities have “institutionalized pedophilia” problem (Hot Air) .
Why random, meaningless sex is a bad idea for women (PJ Media) .
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Policy: To pay for highways, expanded tolls are better than higher gas tax (Washington Examiner) .
Intel Doc Proves liar-nObama, Rice
Asked British to Spy on Trump –
Even After Inauguration
{ rickwells.us } ~ Bill Still reports that he has recently been provided a revealing and explosive signals intelligence document... dated November 17th, 2016. It shows that both Hussein liar-nObama and Susan Rice “were the ones who first requested electronic spying on the candidate, Donald Trump, just seven days after Trump won the Republican nomination in late August, 2016.” He continues, “The secret document, which has no redactions, was sent by Robert Hannigan, the director of GCHQ, the British equivalent of the American NSA, to Boris Johnson, the British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. It is a request for a 90-day renewal of an electronic spying program, which had been running since September 15th, 2016.” The operation, dubbed FULSOME, was originally requested by liar-nObama and Rice on August 28th, 2016. Still points out that “despite bugging two floors of Trump Tower for the last 55 days of the presidential campaign, and delivering all of that intelligence up to liar-nObama and Rice, and you can bet it went straight to the liar-Clinton campaign as well, Trump won by a direct miracle of God.”... https://rickwells.us/obama-rice-british-spy-trump/.
From The scum-Schiff-Hole: Mueller
Has Trump for Obstruction AND Collusion!
by Andrew West
{ constitution.com } ~ Despite their blustering and buffoonery, the democrats in Congress haven’t given the world any indication of just what on earth Robert Mueller is still doing with this Russia hoax... We’ve been at the beck and call of Mueller and his team since May of 2017, and still almost nothing from within the investigation has been made available to the press. Sure, there was the Manafort plea deal, but that blip on the radar was widely written off as a luring tactic by Mueller, and in no way implicated the President in any Russian scheme or scam. So, what exactly is Robert Mueller doing? Speculation has been rampant. For a while, the main conspiracy theory running rampant on Reddit and Twitter had to do with a mysterious 4 chan poster named “Q”, who many believed to be a Trump communications aide. Q was laying out a wide open path of breadcrumbs, pointing in all directions like any good conspiracy constructor should, with many openly believing that the Russia investigation was a front entirely. Disciples of Q started to believe that Trump and Mueller might together be working to secretly drain the swamp, and possibly charge liar-Hillary Clinton and others for their collusion with Russia on the Uranium One deal... https://constitution.com/schiff-hole-mueller-trump-obstruction-collusion/ .
Sen. Ted Cruz: A Whole Lot of Republicans
Eager to Propose citizenship for
1.8 Mil here Illegally
by Daniel Greenfield
{ frontpagemag.com } ~ It's an old computer term that applies to a whole lot of areas beyond the digital. Garbage in, garbage out... That's what happens with immigration bills in the Senate. Amnesty, amnesty and amnesty. Amnesty under the guise of economic improvement. Amnesty under the guise of border security. Amnesty under the guise of a bipartisan compromise. Whatever proposal gets moving, it eventually becomes amnesty. On Fox and Friends, Senator Ted Cruz takes on the latest amnesty proposals and asks a simple question. Why?... https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/269336/sen-ted-cruz-whole-lot-republicans-eager-propose-daniel-greenfield.
Multiple immigration plans blocked in Senate,
after Trump calls one proposal
a 'total catastrophe'
by Alex Pappas
Senators on Thursday blocked four plans dealing with immigration as President Trump torpedoed one proposal as “a total catastrophe”... and his Department of Homeland Security lambasted it as the “end of immigration enforcement in America.” During a series of afternoon procedural votes, no immigration amendments crossed the 60 vote threshold that would have cut off debate and paved the way for final votes. The effort to pass immigration legislation comes as Democrats insist on protecting young illegal immigrants brought to the country as children and Trump demands funding for a border wall. The amendment failed by only getting 54 votes. Forty five senators voted against it... http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/02/15/multiple-immigration-plans-blocked-in-senate-after-trump-calls-one-proposal-total-catastrophe.html.
MEDICATED CNN Hack Mudd “BREAKS DOWN”
Because We Won’t Give Up Our Guns
{ rickwells.us } ~ The same former FBI agent who last week was playing tough guy, taunting President Trump on a CNN Broadcast... saying FBI agents “are ticked” and he expected a rebellion at the agency, the guy who said of Trump, “government’s going to kill this guy,” and who declared President Trump as racist because he knows a “sh*thole”country when he sees one is back at it again. Philip Mudd, a former FBI counterintelligence official, and current CNN attack weenie, one who has overly large pupils and wet-appearing eyes despite the bright studio lights, humiliates himself, performing his best “Crocodile Chuck” clown-Schumer impersonation, pretending to break down on live television. His theatrical presentation was not in response to the deaths of more than a dozen people at a Florida high school, but because he’s trying to use it to guilt Americans into surrendering their firearms. We’re supposed to just trust that the government will never turn on us, ignoring the evidence that they are already in the process of doing exactly that... https://rickwells.us/cnn-mudd-breaks-guns/.
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More Evidence the Ethanol Mandate Hurts the Economy
by Jordan Candler: Oil refinery Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) has a serious beef with the George W. Bush-era biofuel mandate that it says has forced the company into bankruptcy. Unfortunately, other companies face a similar plight absent major regulatory changes. It’s been more than a decade now since Congress stipulated that ethanol be blended with gasoline before hitting the market. It’s a boon for farmers, but it hurts both consumers and refineries like Philadelphia Energy Solution. Much of that has to do with a regulatory requirement known as renewable identification numbers (RINs).According to The Washington Times, “RINs work to ensure that refiners — who hold the ‘point of obligation’ under law, meaning they are responsible for blending ethanol with gas — meet the yearly biofuels quotas set by the EPA. But many refiners, such as Philadelphia Energy Solutions, don’t have the infrastructure to blend the fuels. In such circumstances, companies use a system that somewhat resembles a cap-and-trade approach: buying unused RINs from larger refineries that have blending capacity and have extra credits to spare. The price of those RINs fluctuates wildly. Just a few years ago, RINs were sold for just a few cents, but they have skyrocketed to well over $1 recently.”
This process is unfair and elicits corruption from major industry players that have better resources and can sell credits for their own benefit. As one energy-sector official explained it: “It’s picking and choosing winners within the oil industry in a way that’s causing some to go bankrupt.” Moreover, when used to support large-scale operations, that money adds up quickly. In fact, PES says crude oil accounts for its biggest expense, but, amazingly, that’s followed in second place by RIN compliance costs. Yet Renewable Fuels Association CEO Bob Dinneen asserts, “If refiners truly want lower RIN prices, the answer is really quite simple: blend more ethanol.” He added, “The very purpose of the [mandate] is to drive expanded consumption of renewable fuels, and the RIN provides a powerful incentive to do just that.”
This is a baffling and self-defeating position to take. Anyone who owns an older vehicle or lawn care equipment knows the mechanical damage that ethanol causes. Despite this, congressional leaders like Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) remain diehard fans of the mandate. According to Grassley, “I’m confident that the Renewable Fuel Standard isn’t harming refineries, that other factors are at work and that the RFS law is working as Congress intended. Once these facts are known, there ought to be an end to the misleading rhetoric blaming the RFS.” Grassley is so invested in this ruse that last October he threatened to sideline Trump’s nominees unless they left the mandate alone.
Unfortunately, Grassley’s support is shared by the Trump administration. Last May, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced the mandate would stay intact. At least EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt recognizes the RIN catastrophe. He recently said, “We need RIN reform. It’s something I’ve talked to Congress about. We have to take steps to address this, and I think there are many that understand that.”
But even he went on to explain, “This isn’t getting rid of the ethanol requirement; this is the accounting mechanism to ensure that a certain percentage of our fuel actually has ethanol. So it truly is an enforcement mechanism that is being used in ways that it really wasn’t intended. We need to get reform around that.” What all of them miss is that the RIN situation is just a symptom of a very bad law. The U.S. is awash in oil, but that production can’t be maximized unless the biofuel mandate is repealed in its entirety. At least the Philadelphia Energy Solutions ordeal provides another good reason to keep trying.
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/54112-more-evidence-the-ethanol-mandate-hurts-the-economy
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