Renewable Fuel Standard (Green Energy) : A Tyranny by The Few for The Ignorant Many

Green energy and the Renewable Fuel Standard, wind, solar and biofuels, is just another tool for the progressive socialist environmentalists democrats to bludgeon the public into submission to their ideology of 'the few ruling the many'. This is nothing new as history is riff with the bones of those that have gone before. Failing to understand this guarantees our demise.

At this time of thanksgiving for our country and all of the things we have that makes life in this great country a God given blessing, it's a good time to reflect on how freedom is such a fragile thing. It's also important to never forget there are those that do not have the same understanding of what are country stands for and how it's still the shining city on the hill that million stand in line to come here.

But given all the great things we have to be thankful for, we have to be aware the enemy of freedom is at the gate. The progressives socialist liberals are here to "fundamental change" America into something that the founders could never have envisioned, a group of individuals that want to destroy the Constitution as written of this great country, and rewrite it to benefit a completely different vision of what freedom means and what freedom to chose one's own destiny means.

The progressives see the population as just willing tools to be used to gain their 'fundamental change'. Understand, the progressives truly want to enslave the population, not with chains, but with the publics willingness to be ruled by the 'few' from a distance that believe they are smarter and better equipped to rule the masses. Millions are willing to exchange personal freedom for promised future government security?

You have seen and heard  Jonathan Gruber explain progressive socialism, right?

And as a result of the publics ignorance of what they are losing, personal freedom, and a complacency with what they think can't be taken away, that shining city on the hill will go dark as the light of freedom will be shut off, leaving those that fell asleep wondering how it all happened and how it happened so quickly.

Reasons to Get Rid of the Renewable Fuel Standard
Source: Katie Tubb and Nicolas Loris, "The Ethanol Mandate Proves the Government Is a Poor Central Planner," Daily Signal, November 24, 2014.

November 25, 2014

The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) needs to be repealed, argue Nicolas Loris and Katie Tubb of the Heritage Foundation. They offer a few reasons why the RFS -- which requires that gasoline and diesel fuel contain ethanol -- is a problem:

• It raises the price of gas. Regular gasoline is more energy-efficient than ethanol, requiring consumers to use more fuel.
• Because ethanol comes from corn, the demand created by the RFS increases corn prices by up to 68 percent. Corn prices are important, because they raise the price of food for humans as well as for animals.
• The government's energy targets have routinely been off base, and there is more ethanol than there is demand for the product.

Does anyone benefit from the renewable mandate? Corn growers, ethanol refiners and ethanol producers, say Tubb and Loris. Because the standard guarantees that there will be a market for ethanol, producers are not forced to compete in ways that other industry participants must, limiting innovation.