Thomas Sowell has an article out today about the latest incidence of mission creep from the EPA. To summarize: the EPA has wide discretion when it comes to oil spills. Milk contains oil. Therefore, the EPA has wide discretion over milk spills, too – which includes requiring ‘emergency plans’ and ‘first responders’ and ‘extra storage tanks’ from dairy farmers in order to handle such life- and civilization-threatening events as milk getting spilled*. And, no, this is not an exaggeration: Cato reported on this back in June. This is happening.
Now, Hot Air and Ace of Spades both waxed wroth on this, in their individual ways – but I asked myself, Self? How can I make this work for us? And lo! – the answer was easy.
, and is (to the best to my knowledge) in the public domain.