Renewable Energy Production and Consumption by Source
http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/sec10_3.pdf
ethanol is and was and always will be a stupid idea
And corn fed beef is out of the question...
Nuts, we need to quit selling so much corn to Latin nations, they're all overweight anyway.
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.
Obviously, King Barrack will have to make it rain. No doubt he’ll announce that tomorrow night in the SOTUA.
... 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.
Obama: the American Idle president.
Idle them permanently. Corn is food, not fuel.
Turning food into costly and destructive ‘energy’ - perhaps best dubbed “THE SCAM WHAT AM”.
Would ethanol production be economically viable with out direct federal government involvement, i.e., forcing it upon consumers at bayonet point?
It’s all them damn deer hunters in Texas’s fault, I go through about 4,000 lbs a month.
Why is corn used over sugar... or anything else for that matter. Is there something that makes corn based ethanol superior or cheaper
Subsidies to burn food was a fool’s errand to start with.
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.
Ethanol plants shut down. This is good news. Maybe we can find a way to keep them shut down.
“The Renewable Fuels Association, an ethanol industry trade group, provided data to The Associated Press showing that 20 of the nations 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.