Posted on 03/26/2017 2:54:56 PM PDT by Controlling Legal Authority
The United States exported more than 1 billion gallons (68,000 barrels per day) of fuel ethanol in 2016.
Brazil surpassed Canada as the top destination for U.S. fuel ethanol. Imports were almost exclusively (99 percent) sugarcane ethanol from Brazil.
Brazil is one of the world’s largest producers and consumers of fuel ethanol, but unlike the United States, Brazil’s main ethanol feedstock is sugarcane. Relatively high global sugar prices during 2016 encouraged more sugar production over sugarcane ethanol production.
Most of the imported ethanol went to the West Coast region, most likely for compliance with California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) Program, which uses scoring rules that count sugarcane ethanol as a fuel with a much lower carbon content than corn ethanol.
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Export it all.we don’t need it. It is terrible for the environment just producing that crap. My God the ground water wasted on that stuff. Get it out of our gasoline. We have plenty of oil. It was always a bad idea and it burned up my lawn mower!!
ethanol is far from perfect.
but it is usually better that buying
petroleum from terrorists in the middle east.
Good. Export it all. I want real gas in my car.
There is a third choice - use our own oil resources to their fullest extent.
Every drop of US ethanol is produced with government subsidies from planting the corn to pumping it into your tank. These exports are enriching a few big ethanol producers and corn farmers at the expense of taxpayers and sticking consumers with higher food prices.
We both export and import ethanol to Brazil?
The Gov. used to subsidize each gallon of ethanol gasoline produced, regardless if it was exported. I suspect that it still does.
Yup ethanol is far from perfect. It reduces gas mileage and we buy petroleum from the terrorists in the Middle East to grow the corn. Oh and a Canadian study said it made more CO2.
wrongo.
the liquid-fuel energy gain
is more than ten-to-one.
We have lots of coal.
OPEC is the loser
sell it wherever you can, but get it out of our gas tanks.
Mine as well. Fortunately I have several non-ethanol stations close to home so now I use pure gas in my cycle and lawnmower.
People are starving and LIB idiots want to use food as a fuel for engines. What cold-hearted goons.
As you said, everybody (except the farmers) hates ethanol-—even the environmentalists. This is a good example of how hard it is to get rid of something in government-—almost no one still wants it, yet it is still here. Dang.
The highest return study says net energy from biofuels is 67%. Corn is only 25% positive, all of which is credited to crediting to distillers grain going to animal feed. Those were the best, other studies showed net loss. Where you got ten to one is ridiculous.
I lost a measured 10% on gas mileage.
Calling your argument specious would be too generous by half. Ethanol has as much to do with reducing terrorism as silk worms do with increasing sow bellies.
it was sold because of “global warming” which is a laughable joke. Get that crap out of by fossil fuel tank.
Oil Companies have actually come to love ethanol.......its cheap source of Octane, they can produce crap 75 octane gas, blend it with 100 octane ethanol and sell it....and then yet blame ethanol for the engine problems from ultra low octane gas..........and they get to refine additional higher valued diesel from a barrel of oil
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food for fuel...........talk when the USA stops wasting 30% of its food, until then food is still cheap.
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Most countries (Venezula prime example) live in poverty because of form of govt.....not because food is expensive.
Burning food as fuel is stupid. In an country. And by the way, the ethanol mandate in the US should be SCRAPPED.
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