EPA Proposes Reducing Ethanol Biofuel Mandates
3 billion fewer gallons
AAA projects lower prices into the end of the year
Incident in 2012 sent thousands to the hospital
The media is either economically illiterate or deliberately biased on the matter.
Think gas is expensive? Regulations are what's really costing you at the pump.
AAA study suggests gas prices considered "too high" above $3.44 a gallon
Refiners have to buy ethanol credits, even though they can't use any more of the stuff
State will soon have highest rate in the country
In theory carbon taxes are a good idea. But the practical reality is a different story.
Nine-cent jump in average from last year
Gas cans, also in short supply, going much higher
The containers the man used to store and transport the gas--five gallon Home Depot buckets--are unsafe, says the law. Both the man and the gasoline station owner who sold him the gas face misdemeanor charges for that reason.
Special formulations and difficult entry make for spendy trips to the pump
Using those high gasoline prices to try and snag some sales
Don't seem to realize jump due to state's environmental restrictions, not price-gouging
Jerry Brown will allow the sale of winter blend earlier than usual to increase supply.
It's like eleventy billion dollars a gallon, thanks in part to state regs.
Your government overlords are kind and considerate in the face of crisis
The drought is causing the government to prop up both the agriculture and ethanol industries to the detriment of anybody needing to buy food or fuel.
Richmond facility running at 60 percent capacity.
It's summer and the government intervenes, after all
Newt Gingrich imagines he can command the law of supply and demand.
The government's war on speculators won't make gasoline any cheaper.
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