Posted on 04/24/2009 6:35:30 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi
Ethanol producers reacted with dismay to California’s approval of the nation’s first low-carbon fuel standard, which will require the state’s mix of fuels to be 10 percent lower in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.
In a 9-1 vote late Thursday, the state’s Air Resources Board approved the measure (see background here).
“The drive to force the market toward greater use of alternative fuels will be a boon to the state’s economy and public health — it reduces air pollution, creates new jobs and continues California’s leadership in the fight against global warming,” said the California board’s chairman, Mary D. Nichols, in a statement.
But the ethanol industry is concerned that the regulations give a poor emissions score to their corn-based product, in some cases ranking it as a bigger emitter than petroleum.
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But rather than recognize that we are being scammed, people will jump on board the swindle du jour
A clash of two con artists; The California legislature and ethanol producers.
They’ve both had more than enough taxpayer money.
IIRC in the total picture Ethanol in materials growth, or production of materials consumed plus the manufacturing process, as well the burning of the product in our engines out pollutes standard fuels is what I have read.
This potential was all cited during the debates prior to subsidizing Ethanol IIRC.
Is this in any way possible to meet or is it engineeringly unfeasable?
““The drive to force the market toward greater use of alternative fuels will be a boon to the state’s economy and public health — it reduces air pollution, creates new jobs and continues California’s leadership in the fight against global warming,” said the California board’s chairman, Mary D. Nichols, in a statement. “
No Mary. It will drive up gasoline prices, which will result in less driving which will result in reduced tax revenues which will result in raising the gas tax which will result in higher gas prices.......
I recommend that California water down its fuels with - water. I’d say about 10% watered down by 2020 should do the trick. This will definitely produce fuels with 10% less carbon output, probably a whole lot less, actually.
Water is a very beneficial substance (so far at any rate), being natural, renewable, and plentiful.
I’d suggest that the introduction be done very slowly so that the current generation of carbon-burning power plants and engines have a chance to get use to the full 10% amount. By 2020, with a full 10% dilution, Californians will have tremendous reason to rejoice from the low amount of carbon emanating from their engines and power plants.
In short, I could go on and on about the virtues of water as a fuel additive for California, but I think that most right-thinking people will agree with me that this is the fuel additive most suited for California.
It's hard to fathom that these idiots actually believe their own blather.
Only bottled water, not dirty tap water.
Nichols has devoted her entire career in public and private, not-for-profit service to advocating for the environment and public health. In addition to her work at the Air Board, she has held a number of positions, including: assistant administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Air and Radiation program under the Clinton Administration, Secretary for California’s Resources Agency from 1999 to 2003, and Director of the University of California, Los Angeles Institute of the Environment.
As one of California’s first environmental lawyers, she initiated precedent-setting test cases under the Federal Clean Air Act and California air quality laws while practicing as a staff attorney for the Center for Law in the Public Interest. Nichols holds a Juris Doctorate degree from Yale Law School and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University.
Even worse. A lawyer pretending to be a scientist.
Perhaps if businesses such as Big Oil and Big Ethanol stopped selling their products in California, there would be a quick recalibration of attitudes by the scumbag politicians. Let ‘em walk!
Yale law, like the Clintons.
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