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Judge rules U.S. violates alternative fuel laws

March 9, 2006 03:15 AM / FUBAR .
A federal judge ruled that the Bush administration is violating a 1992 law aimed at increasing the country's use of alternative fuel vehicles.

The Department of Energy has ignored a requirement to set long-range goals for converting a percentage of the nation's cars and light trucks to natural gas, ethanol, hydrogen and other nonpetroleum fuels, U.S District Judge William Alsup said in a ruling this week.

Anne Kolton, a spokeswoman for the Department of Energy, said Wednesday the department had no comment since litigation is ongoing.

Two environmental groups sued the Bush administration last year for failing to comply with the law.

The Energy Policy Act of 1992 was designed to reduce air pollution, global warming and the country's dependence on foreign oil. The law required the Energy Department to consider imposing alternative fuel vehicle purchasing requirements on private and municipal fleets.

Judge Alsup ordered the agency to revise the law's petroleum reduction goal to an achievable number, then decide whether to impose purchasing requirements on the fleets.


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Comments

I'm confused, is about improved profit for oilies?

Posted by Charlie Peters at March 9, 2006 07:12 AM

It's not surprising that the Bush Administration is not complying to the Energy Policy Act of 1992, since our president believes he's above any laws enacted by our government.

This man does not follow protocol within any area of our checks/balances. He ignores everyone, as well as our Constitution and Bill of Rights. His erratic behavior and actions has endangered every American citizen.

It's all "his way or no way" as far as President Bush is concerned, because he's top man on the totem pole. This man is not a constructive leader, he's a destructive president, who, at the end of his term will have left America in shambles and deeply in debt!!

May God help us all.

Posted by Beverly Bittner at March 9, 2006 03:19 PM

Just read that government is buying up all the MRE's and 7.62x39 ammo in the country- Called Larrys Gun Shop in Mobile and told them what I was reading. They confirmed that was true- they had NONE! They also told me that WALMART just stopped selling guns in Mobile, Alabama. Smells like a plan to me. Get what you need now,Folks.
Welcome to the America none of ever thought we'd see. Invest is a little gold, a little silver, and a lot of lead.

Posted by William Borgstrom at March 9, 2006 03:34 PM

1. This nation was not set up to allow government to nose into the actual running of private enterprises.
2. However, it is government's business to keep a business "level playing field" to a degree of fairness.
3. Just the opposite has been done; prostitute government has lately changed our patent laws into a monopoly for global corporations wherein they are free to "mine" the ideas of others in such a way that inventors will see no reward for their efforts but corporations will get rich from either producing new inventions without paying for them or by buying them for a song (by "making an offer the inventor can not refuse"), then burying them so they will not have to compete with their superior attributes.
4. People have gotten wise to this cabalistic manipulation. Individuals all over the country are quietly making their own hydrogen generators which cook hydrogen fuel from a supply of water as needed. (No need to carry around a hydrogen bomb for fuel - that's bull.) It is a simple thing to break water into its component parts - both of which burn as fuel then recombine as water - and stop paying for other fuels. It's been done almost as long as there have been combustion engines. People who have tried to get money backing to mass produce water powered cars or other machinery have often been bought off and sometimes killed off. However, those who only build a few are usually left alone. But now the plans for such machines can be found on the internet, sometimes with detailed "how to" instructions. Anyone with a bit of mechanical and electrical ability can build their own to power their home, their transportation and their tools. (No, I haven't got one running yet but I'm working on it and many are using them.) One man adapted hydrogen generators to propane power units, took them to New Orleans after the hurricane, and was run off by FEMA, I'm told. Figures.

Posted by Tony B. at March 9, 2006 05:11 PM

To make hydrogen from water you need exactly the same amout of energy you get by burning it as fuel. That's physic. You need cold fusion to get energy from water ... (or normal fusion, but thats little overdoing).

Posted by h at March 10, 2006 06:52 AM

It's really simple to start this nation on the way to alternative fuels infrastructure.
Take what Brazil is currently doing and triple it.
Brazil is a nation of 170 million people, with almost half the vehicles currently using ETHANOL.
Brazil's sugar cane to ethanol program is so successful that they actually EXPORT some of it to the United States right now.
So, take what they're doing, triple it and we will have a nation with plenty of ethanol vehicles on the road, because right now a lot of them are already alt fuel capable and most of their owners dont even know it.
How do you find out?
To quote my Navy veteran wife,
"RTFM"...read the friggin manual.
Then take biodiesel and pump it up with the fervor and funding initiatives of the US/Soviet Space Race and we will have half the diesel vehicles using a renewable fuel.
Together those numbers will provide us the edge to free ourselves from the dependence on foreign oil which provides hostile regimes with their much needed funding for terrorism.
Besides, what better way to stimulate job growth.
Industries that convert existing fleet to accept ethanol use would provide hundreds of thousands of jobs for our growing ranks of unemployed.

Posted by Jeffery Haas at March 10, 2006 04:50 PM

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