{"id":6323,"date":"2012-12-03T16:36:26","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T21:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=6323"},"modified":"2012-12-03T16:36:26","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T21:36:26","slug":"obama-theatrics-obama-reality-business-insider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/03\/obama-theatrics-obama-reality-business-insider\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Theatrics, Obama Reality &#8211; Business Insider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wendy McElroy writes that we should ignore the distraction of President Obama&#8217;s flowery speeches and focus on the under-the-radar actions of regulatory agencies and regulatory czars appointed &#8212; FDR-style &#8212; directly by the president.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-color:#ddddff;\"><p>A Nov. 19 article in the National Review opened, \u201cOn Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency rejected petitions from the governors of Georgia, Texas, Arkansas, Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, and North Carolina to suspend the biofuel-blending requirements established by the federal Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The petition asked for relief from the program\u2019s requirement to convert corn crops into ethanol. National Review explained, \u201cThe 2012 target is to blend 13.2 billion gallons of biofuel into our gasoline, a quantity that ratchets up to 13.8 billion gallons in 2013. This year, about 4.7 billion bushels, or 40% of the nation\u2019s corn crop, will be consumed by ethanol manufacturing.\u201d The petitioning states are economically reeling from \u201cthe worst drought in 50 years,\u201d and the EPA czar has the power to waive the program\u2019s requirement. She chose not to.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/obama-theatrics-obama-reality-2012-12\">Obama Theatrics, Obama Reality &#8211; Business Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wendy McElroy writes that we should ignore the distraction of President Obama&#8217;s flowery speeches and focus on the under-the-radar actions of regulatory agencies and regulatory czars appointed &#8212; FDR-style &#8212; directly by the president. A Nov. 19 article in the National Review opened, \u201cOn Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency rejected petitions from the governors of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/03\/obama-theatrics-obama-reality-business-insider\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Obama Theatrics, Obama Reality &#8211; Business Insider&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,34],"tags":[441,822,1255,1281,2900],"class_list":["post-6323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-us-canada-countries-regions","tag-biofuels","tag-corn","tag-environmental-protection-agency","tag-ethanol","tag-regulatory-agencies"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Obama Theatrics, Obama Reality - Business Insider - the patient investor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Obama Theatrics, Obama Reality - Business Insider - the patient investor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Wendy McElroy writes that we should ignore the distraction of President Obama&#8217;s flowery speeches and focus on the under-the-radar actions of regulatory agencies and regulatory czars appointed &#8212; FDR-style &#8212; directly by the president. 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