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1 posted on 02/11/2013 10:18:29 AM PST by thackney
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Renewable Energy Production and Consumption by Source
http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/sec10_3.pdf


2 posted on 02/11/2013 10:19:37 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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ethanol is and was and always will be a stupid idea


3 posted on 02/11/2013 10:20:10 AM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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And corn fed beef is out of the question...


4 posted on 02/11/2013 10:21:33 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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Corn shortage idles 20 ethanol plants nationwide

Nuts, we need to quit selling so much corn to Latin nations, they're all overweight anyway.

8 posted on 02/11/2013 10:28:10 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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The entire concept of burning food for fuel is wrong.

In all the Pro ethanol states, the ones that grow corn, you can buy straight gasoline for your lawn equipment.

Not in good ole Texas. I guess they figure everyone needs a new weed eater every two years.


10 posted on 02/11/2013 10:33:04 AM PST by hadaclueonce (you are paying 12% more for fuel because of Ethanol. Smile big Corn Lobby,)
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Obviously, King Barrack will have to make it rain. No doubt he’ll announce that tomorrow night in the SOTUA.


11 posted on 02/11/2013 10:36:01 AM PST by txrefugee
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"Corn shortage idles 20 ethanol plants nationwide...

... Which by the same token actually caused the corn shortage which is idling those same 20 ethanol plants. It's called an unintended consequence, a vicious cycle created by radical environmentalists.

13 posted on 02/11/2013 10:39:57 AM PST by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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Obama: the American Idle president.


14 posted on 02/11/2013 10:43:16 AM PST by Chad N. Freud (FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
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Idle them permanently. Corn is food, not fuel.


17 posted on 02/11/2013 11:02:08 AM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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Turning food into costly and destructive ‘energy’ - perhaps best dubbed “THE SCAM WHAT AM”.


18 posted on 02/11/2013 11:07:27 AM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."..)
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Would ethanol production be economically viable with out direct federal government involvement, i.e., forcing it upon consumers at bayonet point?


19 posted on 02/11/2013 11:08:51 AM PST by Count of Monte Fisto
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It’s all them damn deer hunters in Texas’s fault, I go through about 4,000 lbs a month.


20 posted on 02/11/2013 11:18:08 AM PST by Dusty Road
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Why is corn used over sugar... or anything else for that matter. Is there something that makes corn based ethanol superior or cheaper


22 posted on 02/11/2013 11:26:00 AM PST by drunknsage
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Subsidies to burn food was a fool’s errand to start with.


32 posted on 02/11/2013 12:00:18 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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10% ethanol causes problems with small gas engines. Here in the Northeast we a little wind and snow this past weekend. The snow thrower I have stalled at least 6 times while trying to clear the driveway. If 15% ethanol was used the motor would have stopped.

Now What happens to a Boater navigating at Sea and runs into some choppy weather. Ethanol stalls the motor while under way there will be fatal consequences.

Stop burning food it is not meant to be used for fuel.


33 posted on 02/11/2013 12:00:18 PM PST by Colonial35
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Ethanol plants shut down. This is good news. Maybe we can find a way to keep them shut down.


38 posted on 02/11/2013 2:19:48 PM PST by lurk
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“The Renewable Fuels Association, an ethanol industry trade group, provided data to The Associated Press showing that 20 of the nation’s 211 ethanol plants have ceased production over the past year”

“20 of .... 211”, which is slightly less than 10% of the ethanol plants,

but guess what, production for 2012 while slightly less than for 2011, it was only 2.5% lower than 2011, not 10% lower, and it was still 2.5% higher than was consumption in 2012

there is neither a shortage of Ethanol or a shortage of Ethanol producers, drought or no drought

see the link below offered in an earlier post in this thread:

http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/sec10_3.pdf

It’s Federal budget time and the ethanol-corn lobby has hired their friends in journalism to help make scapegoats of things like the drought for the industry shakeout they are going through - the poor dears.


40 posted on 02/11/2013 3:57:59 PM PST by Wuli
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