Posted on 10/18/2010 6:39:49 PM PDT by jazusamo
The Obama administration wants to boost the amount of corn shoved into the gas tank of newer cars by 50 percent. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) made this happen on Wednesday by giving partial approval to E15, an automotive fuel blend containing 15 percent ethanol. This dirty deal will enrich the major ethanol producers represented by Growth Energy while impoverishing taxpayers and anyone else who cares about clean air.
Technically, the agency only approved a waiver allowing the sale of E15 for vehicles from model year 2007 and later, but don't be fooled by this incremental approach. The EPA is expected by November to adjust down the allowance to cars built after 2000. The current "allowance" for a 10-percent-ethanol fuel blend, or E10, is no different from a mandate. Ninety percent of gasoline sold in the United States is E10, and in most areas of the country, real gasoline is simply not available. It's not clear how multiple fuel pumps for older and newer cars would work in practice under this rule, but ethanol policy has never made sense.
Congress and the George W. Bush administration enacted the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, which, in addition to banning incandescent light bulbs, mandates the sale of 36 billion gallons of ethanol in 2022. That established a profitable market for producers by government fiat. The scheme also will drive up grain and corn prices, benefiting farm states at the expense of consumers.
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Try running a lawn mower or snow blower without adding crud to negate the ethanol! Grrrrrrrrrrrr!
Try running a lawn mower or snow blower without adding crud to negate the ethanol! Grrrrrrrrrrrr!
And food prices will go up again.
Less corn sed for food. Other crops reduced to make way for corn.
how nice.
I envy those in Free America who still have pure gasoline-dealing stations in their areas.
NASCAR is buying into this crap next year. It will probably boost the popcorn sales at the races though.
Yep, I’ve got a pretty new edger that just quit, I’m sure that’s what it is.
I love ethanol but this will make no difference. there will be no station with 15% until it is ok for all vec. I like fuel made in america including oil, nuke, hydro, ng, wind
This will affect prices on most everything we buy between food products and transportation.
Not to mention the fewer additives found in oil these days.
Time for a class action suit against the EPA & farmers, for ruined equipment and the resultant pollution.
Stupid Stupid Stupid Stupid Stupid!!!!!!
Perhaps it is time to file a class action suit against the EPA for mandating fuel that destroys personal property.
Either that or its time for revolution.
I believe it. It won’t be pretty. 2011 is going to be a bad year
Time to defund the EPA!!!!!
We take the starch out of the corn make into fuel then use the protien that is leftover to feed to cattle to make them fat and then replace the starch lost with normal useless feed from straw and corn stalks you must look at the whole process
The only part of the process I am interested in is that it ruins the engines that ordinary American like me use to get through life for no valid reason whatsoever.
Decrease pollution? Bullsh!t.
Cattle feed? Obviously bullsh!t.
Adulterated gasoline has cost me over $400 in the past two years for repairs and additives.
In the meantime, a lot of corporate farmers get rich sucking on the government teat.
>>>>QUIT BURNING OUR FOOD!
Are you one of those people that believes that once a bushel of corn is used to make ethanol that’s all there is to it?
That the process results in only ethanol, and nothing else?
Oh, and that the corn used for ethanol is that which people eat?
If you answer yes to any of those, you are in a world of ignorant bliss. Enjoy your stay.
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