The point of the regulation was to force the oil companies to pay for the R&D to get this fuel to market, which they didn't do, preferring to pay the fine. So therefore, the fine is too low to do the job. $6.8 million is chump change to the oil industry.
If this comment thread seems to make no sense, it may be because I removed a LOT of comments -not because of the opinion expressed, but because they contained attacks on other commenters. That is against the rules here. You are welcome to re-comment if you can keep it civil. If you want to fight or trade insults with each other, please do it somewhere else. Thank you.
One time my extended family got together for a meal and we reminisced about childhood, and the wonderful things Mom used to make: tuna croquettes, Swiss steak, macaroni and tomatoes, frog legs, creamed eggs on toast... and Mom laughed and said the only reason she ever served that crap was because we couldn't afford real food.
Um, the article explains that driving to the store several times a week is prohibitively expensive for an awful lot of people. Add that to the fact that your car may break down any second, and you just cannot go buy fresh bread every day.
Disallowing comments would not totally clear us under SOPA. We link to a lot of other sites here; that's the main thing we do, because we want to show you the "neat" things the web has to offer. But under SOPA, if we linked to site ABC because they have a nice kitten video, then site ABC were to get into trouble for a copyright-infringing photo that site ABC posted 6 months ago that WE never even saw, then Neatorama could get taken down along with site ABC.
My 9th grader defended her falling algebra grade by complaining about the teacher, that she had no concern about her students' self-esteem. This is high school!
I said, "Welcome to the real world, kid. Nobody cares about your self-esteem. Everyone cares about results."
I added that her mother cared about her self-esteem, but right now her grades matter more.
http://www.neatorama.com/tag/bento/
More likely, they intended you to think that these bills passed, and the internet went dark.
http://act.fightforthefuture.org/page/s/sopa-strike-modal
The Oatmeal has a gif that Austin Hoffman's remark about "curing a headache with a guillotine" reminded me of:
http://theoatmeal.com/sopa
I said, "Welcome to the real world, kid. Nobody cares about your self-esteem. Everyone cares about results."
I added that her mother cared about her self-esteem, but right now her grades matter more.