August 1, 2013 Obama pronounced a new Executive Order effectively banning Ammonium Nitrate, the single source of nitrogen in fertilizer. His vision is apparently that Americans are safer without this explosive component than with having food and fuel. Strange tradeoff.
With an administration that will not protect our servicemen in danger in Benghazi, anxious to reverse "Stand Your Ground" protections affording citizens the right to protect themselves from assault, and numerous executive orders and even laws which endanger us at home and abroad.... who can doubt they would trade our food for their safety from expected home-grown terrorists. We are supposed to believe Muslims are peace loving, but the Feds treat all Americans as potential bomb makers. Let up King George,.... err I mean King Obama.
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. Clinton did the same thing to Anhydrous Ammonia dealers in 1999. It put most Anhydrous dealers out of business. Obama is imposing the same regs and adding explosives regulations on top of OSHA and EPA regulations. It’s all there if you know how to read bureacratese.
Tannerite will probably be banned outright as soon as DHS & BATFE finish making policy based on this E.O. Whether or not they can criminalize it I don’t know. You can count on it being taken off the market though. The government has had it’s sights on Tannerite for a long time now.
Food and Fuel prices will skyrocket because Ammonium Nitrate forms the basis for almost all nitrogen in granular fertilizers used in American farming. There are no cost and ease of manufacture/use equivalents for ammonium nitrate. Supply and demand economics are going to be the harsh lesson of the day. Crop yields will go down. Corn is the basis for the American food supply and the fuel additive ethanol. A.N. is critical in corn production.
Hope everyone is ready for $12/gallon gasoline and $20 a box corn flakes.
