Posted on 12/04/2015 5:03:28 AM PST by thackney
If Pennsylvania had the first primary they’d be subsidizing chocolate and beer.
Doesn’t matter, as it was none of these:
Ethanol costs more per gallon to produce than gasoline.
Ethanol ruins engines.
Ethanol reduces gas mileage and results in actual more pollutants per mile.
That really would be a great way to weaken Russia, Iran and ISIS—but that’s not exactly a priority for Barry.
But also, doesn’t it take at least as much oil to produce the equivalent ethanol? If so, scaling back on ethanol shouldn’t really raise overall oil demand all that much if at all.
It was reduced for the reason the gasoline industry requested.
This isn’t a real reduction in ethanol use or production. If I’m reading the details correctly, it’s a reduction *from the anticipated increase*. The amount used will be roughly the same in anticipation of flat fuel demand.
And note that the mandate includes other bio fuels, not just ethanol.
What, you expect me to actually read the article?
;-)
Just look at what the food pyramid and decades of pushing low-fat, high-carb diets at us
I don't know that it's the work of the ag lobby.
Instead, I'd attribute it to all the fad diets that infest the leftist spectrum. After all, why has the school lunch program become such a disaster? It's not the ag lobby, as it used to be, but the meddling o Michelle Obama herself.
Why break with tradition?
The feds aren’t doing this for the right reason. Fuel for private automobiles is still fuel and promotes the use of the private automobiles that the feds abhor.
For what it is worth, I share your wish.
Except for a few specialty foods, we import no food.
In fact, the American Farmer produces so much food that vast amounts must be exported.
A year or o ago one of the farm trade magazines had a special issue entitled 'Boatloads and Boatloads of Meat' which detailed the tons and tons of meat that had to be exported to get rid of the staggering surplus of meat we produce.
The same is true of ethanol corn on the all emotion driven ethanol threads.
We have always had mountains and mountains of surplus corn, Name the year, and the answer is that there was so much surplus corn countless shiploads had to be exported.
We produce so much food that food prices dropped 40% over the 30 years from 1970 to 2011.
But, that is fact based information, and as such has no business being on this thread.
Like I said, “wrong reason”.
I went the pure gas route a while back with my car and got a bit better mileage but not enough to make the extra cost worth it (funny how not adding something, which costs money, makes a product more expensive - probably based on why those who can afford it will buy Kobe Beef when a good regular T-Bone/Rib Eye/NY Strip will do...
I did start using premium with added Sta-bil for my small engine lawn equipment though.
Hey, I never said it would WORK. :-)
Oil companies learned that trick with no-lead gas.
“How is reducing the ethanol requirement from the 2007 law against Ted Cruz?”
Well, this puts Cruz on the same page as Obama as far as ethanol. Doesn’t the establishment want ethanol so they can keep their subsidies?
“But, that is fact based information, and as such has no business being on this thread.”
It is entirely possible I have been misinformed, but much of the produce I buy does come labeled as “product of (Latin American nation)”. I would love to think the information you provided is true, but observing labels led me to believe we were growing corn for fuel while importing food to eat. Based on your post, I will do some research. Thanks.
Ted Cruz calls for ending the ethanol mandate and said so at an Iowa political rally.
Ted Cruz Is Anti-Ethanol-Mandate, but Iowans Like Him Anyway
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3367010/posts
Ted Cruz Woos Iowa Ag Summit With Principled Anti-Ethanol Subsidy Stance
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3266493/posts
Two places in Houston are listed
Racing Fuel sold by the barrel at vastly higher prices that highway premium.
So does that mean he agrees with Obama? I don’t really care, I support Cruz’s position.
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