From Over The Transom

Western Riflr Shooters Association ^ | 08/13/2013 | Agitprop

[Rusty0604]

Obama issued an Executive order on August 1, 2013 that will effectively ban Ammonium Nitrate in the USA. It will become too expensive and create too much possible civil and criminal liability to manufacture, store, or transport it. Hope everyone is ready for $12/gallon gasoline and $20 a box corn flakes.

[Rusty0604]

Hand a bunch of power hungry bureaucrats an order like this and they will come up with so many regulations and fees that it will make it prohibitively costly.

[thackney]

The preliminary findings from the West, Texas explosion is clear the current regulations/guidelines combined with the voluntary actions of that industry are not sufficient. I routinely work with hazardous area classifications and equipment. No way what was done there would be acceptable in our industry. Some still try to cut too many corners, but what existed at West prior to the explosion, should not have existed, in my opinion.

Preliminary Findings of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board
from its Investigation of the West Fertilizer Explosion and Fire
http://www.csb.gov/assets/1/19/West_Preliminary_Findings.pdf

[Jacquerie]

When I was a kid, my parents would sometimes ship me out of the city to my grandparents' farm. I loved it.

Granddad was gradually clearing some land, so a great treat was getting to blow up hardwood stumps. We would go to a local bar/grocery/firearms/farm supply store and buy dynamite and caps.

He was pretty good at determining how much dynamite to use on each stump, but sometimes he got it wrong and the craters were pretty impressive.

[Rusty0604]

I’m sure you are right and know more about this than I do. I understand the reason behind a lot of regulations but so many times the gov’t takes everything to an extreme; ordinary people losing their property and having swat teams come down on them over a mud puddle or some raw milk. Look what happened to Gibson Guitar. Look what they’re doing to the coal industry.

[thackney]

When the folks store highly explosive material in wooden bins, in a wooden warehouse with other combustible materials, route flammable liquid above the open bins in pvc (meltable) pipe with no fire sprinklers and do this in a residential area, it may be fair to say they have demonstrated a lack of judgement/concern on their own.

[Errant]

I looked for something along these lines as soon as hedge fund and Wall street investors discovered agriculture. Why compete when you can "donate" a few cents on the dollar to politicians and bureaucrats to enact laws and regulations that give you the advantage, and eventually eliminate your competition: "the little man".

The recent plant explosion in Texas may join the other long lists of suspicious crisis that offer the opportunity for the "regulators" to take advantage, as a former tope government insider termed it.

People better learn about compost piles and organic gardening. In the near future, you're survival will depend upon the knowledge to make do with what you have available.

The greedy ones who've plotted and murdered to accumulate massive piles of cash, will one day find piles of cash worthless, their industries without consumers, and their souls forfeited.