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Turning Soybeans Into Diesel Fuel Is Costing Us Billions
NPR ^
| January 16, 2018
| Dan Charles
Posted on 01/17/2018 2:17:34 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie
This year, trucks and other heavy-duty motors in America will burn some 3 billion gallons of diesel fuel that was made from soybean oil. They're doing it, though, not because it's cheaper or better, but because they're required to, by law.
The law is the Renewable Fuel Standard, or RFS. For some, especially Midwestern farmers, it's the key to creating clean energy from American soil and sun. For others like many economists it's a wasteful misuse of resources.
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TOPICS: Agriculture; Business/Economy; Food
KEYWORDS: biodiesel; biofuels; ethanol; gasoline
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Turning food into motor fuel borders on the sinful, particularly when we in America are blessed with an abundance of real in-the-ground oil deposits.
To: Red Badger
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posted on
01/17/2018 2:21:31 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Governor Dinwiddie
For some, especially Midwestern farmers, it's the key to creating clean energy from American soil and sun What BS - it's a government subsidy, nothing else.
"Creating clean energy" my eye. Follow the money!
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posted on
01/17/2018 2:21:49 PM PST
by
grobdriver
(BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
To: Governor Dinwiddie; muleskinner; Fiddlstix; TexasTransplant; Squeako; dennisw; norwaypinesavage; ...
Diesel Knock!..................
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posted on
01/17/2018 2:24:34 PM PST
by
Red Badger
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
1st rule of civilization:
DO NOT BURN YOUR FOOD!..................
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posted on
01/17/2018 2:25:18 PM PST
by
Red Badger
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
For others like many economists it's a wasteful misuse of resources. The resources belong to the farmers who grew them, not to the "economists," who are a bunch of ivory-tower pencil-pushers.
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posted on
01/17/2018 2:25:59 PM PST
by
IronJack
(A)
To: Governor Dinwiddie
I’ve personally turned soy and other beans into methane.
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posted on
01/17/2018 2:26:32 PM PST
by
Dutch Boy
To: Red Badger
DO NOT BURN YOUR FOOD! Do you eat soybeans?
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posted on
01/17/2018 2:26:50 PM PST
by
IronJack
(A)
To: IronJack
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posted on
01/17/2018 2:29:27 PM PST
by
Red Badger
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To: IronJack
#6:
"The resources belong to the farmers who grew them, not to the "economists," who are a bunch of ivory-tower pencil-pushers." Of course. And any true economist would point out that this policy is for the free market to decide, not lawmakers.
If biodiesel is useful, there will be a market for it. It's not for congress to tamper with the free market by mandating that biodiesel be produced and consumed.
To: Governor Dinwiddie
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posted on
01/17/2018 2:32:38 PM PST
by
tomkat
To: Governor Dinwiddie
Man bites dog: NPR has found a renewable energy gov’t subsidy that it doesn’t like - because the money goes to farmers in the Midwest that NPR doesn’t like.
On the merits of the issue. I used to believe in the economic argument.
But thinking about national security and the ability to win the next big war - the West will need all the fossil fuel sources it can get.
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posted on
01/17/2018 2:33:40 PM PST
by
Reverend Wright
(The CBC: Deceiving Canadians since 1936.)
To: Red Badger
Enough that their use as biodiesel is affecting your survival?
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posted on
01/17/2018 2:37:53 PM PST
by
IronJack
(A)
To: IronJack
Do you eat soybeans? My food eats soybeans.
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posted on
01/17/2018 2:37:58 PM PST
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: IronJack
I don’t eat that many.
But, without soybeans, we’d have no TOFU!..............
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posted on
01/17/2018 2:38:56 PM PST
by
Red Badger
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To: NorthMountain
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posted on
01/17/2018 2:39:18 PM PST
by
Red Badger
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
The flip side is that the Federal Government has mandated ultra low sulfur diesel. This fuel has much lower top of cylinder lubricity, enough to be a problem. The 2% biodiesel blend is enough to restore the top of cylinder lubrication. This is what I have heard from fleet owners, not the government.
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posted on
01/17/2018 2:40:15 PM PST
by
Fred Hayek
(The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
01/17/2018 2:42:02 PM PST
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: NorthMountain
Chicken and cattle feed mostly, but the pressed cake from the oil extraction process is still used as feed. It also does seem to run smoother in the equipment but it’s too expensive to produce or use given the alternatives we have.
To: Governor Dinwiddie
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