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Turning Soybeans Into Diesel Fuel Is Costing Us Billions
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| January 16, 2018
| Dan Charles
Posted on 01/17/2018 2:17:34 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: NorthMountain
Your “food” eats oats too. And feed corn. And hay. And probably sorghum and molasses too. Are farmers allowed to use those feedstocks for anything other than livestock feed?
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posted on
01/17/2018 2:44:53 PM PST
by
IronJack
(A)
To: IronJack
Better question: Are fuel companies mandated by Fedzilla to include fuels derived from those crops?
And no need for the scare quotes around the word food. I eat cows, and chickens, and pigs, and turkeys. If you don't, that's your problem.
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posted on
01/17/2018 2:47:36 PM PST
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: Governor Dinwiddie
Soy beans into diesel fuel and corn into ethanol both need to be banned.
Food should be consumed by animals and man, not burned.
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posted on
01/17/2018 2:51:21 PM PST
by
BuffaloJack
(Chivalry is not dead. It is a warriors code amd only practiced by warriors.)
To: Red Badger
I don’t hate tofu, but I don’t see that as a particularly bad downside.
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posted on
01/17/2018 2:51:26 PM PST
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: Governor Dinwiddie
"Turning food into motor fuel borders on the sinful..." I get SO tired of hearing this plain wrong notion. Bio-fuels from food crops do NOT reduce the available food supply, they increase it.
Whether it be corn or soybeans, the demand generated for biofuel results in additional crop acreage being planted and harvested over and above that for normal food usage.
Only a part of the whole bean or corn kernel is converted to fuel, the rest is perfectly consumable AS FOOD, either by humans or by livestock.
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posted on
01/17/2018 2:58:10 PM PST
by
Wonder Warthog
(The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
To: NorthMountain
Do you have any idea how much (or little) of the yearly soybean crop goes to feed chickens and pigs and turkeys?
What are you claiming is the impact on your eating habits of the federal biodiesel mandate?
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posted on
01/17/2018 3:03:09 PM PST
by
IronJack
(A)
To: Governor Dinwiddie
“Turning food into motor fuel borders on the sinful”
AND...STUPID....corn/ethanol// etc
Have these same nitwits figured out the cost of REWIRING America if even 20% of us ‘turned’ to FULL electric cars..
The present infrastructure re electricity CANNOT carry the load !
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posted on
01/17/2018 3:04:41 PM PST
by
litehaus
(A memory toooo long.............)
To: IronJack
Farmers can freely do this and the rest of us should be free to not buy their cr@p.
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posted on
01/17/2018 3:05:20 PM PST
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: Reverend Wright
Sadly, soybeans are not a fossil fuel.
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posted on
01/17/2018 3:06:45 PM PST
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: ConservativeMind
I'm not in favor of a federal mandate forcing anyone to do anything. But the notion that we're "burning our food" is ridiculous.
If the biodiesel industry can't survive the free market, then let it die. I'm okay with that.
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posted on
01/17/2018 3:09:17 PM PST
by
IronJack
(A)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
01/17/2018 3:10:47 PM PST
by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
To: Wonder Warthog
I am for farmers having the opportunity to make their crops into anything they want.
I am also against any mandate that makes someone buy something someone makes.
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posted on
01/17/2018 3:11:05 PM PST
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: IronJack
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posted on
01/17/2018 3:12:06 PM PST
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: Red Badger
TOFU shrinks your brain. Really. Univ. of Hawaii study
To: ConservativeMind
"I am for farmers having the opportunity to make their crops into anything they want. I am also against any mandate that makes someone buy something someone makes. These are good and reasonable reasons to oppose "some" biofuels, but to argue that the result is "burning food" is flatly wrong.
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posted on
01/17/2018 3:19:09 PM PST
by
Wonder Warthog
(The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
To: IronJack; NorthMountain
>>>>>> Do you eat soybeans?
My food eats soybeans. <<<<<<<<
Same for me, if my food starves, I’ll get real hungry, and when I am hungry I get real testy...
To: tomkat
“For some, especially Midwestern farmers, it’s the key to creating clean energy from American soil and sun milking the US Treasury under cover of yet another lunatic eco-fascist scam.”
My family owns a fair amount of this wonderful ground. I stand to lose some income if the bio fuel scam ceases and would gladly do so to get back to the job of feeding the world that we used to be so proud of.
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posted on
01/17/2018 4:40:21 PM PST
by
CrazyIvan
(Honk If You've Been Sexually Assaulted By Harvey Weinstein.)
To: Governor Dinwiddie
How many soybean farmers use bio diesel in their farm machinery? My bet next to none as bio diesel has a tendency to get during cold weather typical during harvest season.
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posted on
01/17/2018 4:51:39 PM PST
by
The Great RJ
("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
To: IronJack
The consequence is storing pure gasoline in your garage to dilute away that alcohol junk poluting gasoline.
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posted on
01/17/2018 4:54:17 PM PST
by
TheNext
To: Governor Dinwiddie
When Cruz began subsidies to stuff like this was an issue. As he continued it dropped out of sight. But if he continued and made it an issue he could have won states like Illinois and Wisconsin .
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posted on
01/17/2018 4:55:39 PM PST
by
mosesdapoet
(Mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin)
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