What!?
All that fuel stuff says, in essence, is that you have to have sufficient fuel on board to safely conduct your flight, and if you don't, you're doing the wrong thing.
Don't say that they don't need to legislate for common sense things - of course they do, just like there have to be laws for road speed limits and the like.
In an age of litigation, they don't really have too much choice to not close up loopholes.
"Sure I ran out of fuel, your honour, but I honestly didn't mean to."
"OK, fair enough - case dismissed."