Posted on 10/09/2018 4:17:49 PM PDT by bananaman22
The Trump administration announced a major policy change in an effort to win back farm country, allowing the year-round sale of a higher concentration of ethanol.
Coinciding with a campaign stop in Iowa, President Trump announced the lifting of the ban of E15 during summer months, a significant win for the corn and ethanol industries. Up until now, E15 cannot be sold during the summer because of smog concerns. Ethanol producers saw their share prices skyrocket on the news.
The decision comes after roughly 18 months of damaging policies to the agricultural industry. Former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt became public enemy number one for the ethanol industry last year, even as many people in agriculture-heavy states supported Trump, as Pruitt’s agency repeatedly undermined the market for ethanol.
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Agree, very bad policy on Trump’s part....
Check your owners manual. A few years ago E15 voided engine warranty.
OPEC
Hillary’s best friend
ethanol’s worst enemy
We haven’t had a shortage of corn for, what, 70 years?
We don’t even know what it might be like.
And it won’t happen.
Why do Republicans kiss farmers a$$es when they are only 2% of the population?
Okay, thanks. I am not schooled on gasoline/ethanol. The President spoke of it as if it were a seasonal thing.
Have you bought anything beef lately? Why do you think the price is so hi? You can thank Ethanol.
not with Trump on this at all.
yes especially when my dad would always burn the burgers on the grill when i was growing up.
Read YOUR owner's manual for YOUR automobile. It will tell you what the manufacturer of YOUR automobile has designed it to burn. Fuel YOUR automobile with as specified in YOUR owner's manual. If you're buying a new or used car, check the owner's manual before you buy, if fuel type concerns you.
MY 1999 Ranger, with its Flex-Fuel engine, is designed to operate on up to 85% ethanol fuel (E85). MY 2015 Corolla with its Valvematic engine is designed to operate with up to 15% ethanol (E15). I determined this by reading their respective owner's manuals. The proper fuels for MY automobiles has no bearing on the proper fuels for YOUR automobiles. Read YOUR owner's manual.
Nonsense ... Trump was pro-ethanol during the primaries. He's wrong, but at least he's consistent. Only Cruz had the guts to oppose solar powered cars (where do you think the energy in the ethanol came from?) during the primaries.
He didn't win, so it doesn't matter. We're at war with the Left; you go to war with the President you have. Trump hasn't flipflopped, nor has he stabbed me in the back. I'm not turning my back on him.
And yet the farmers are barely hanging on.
Is it really fair to eat cheap on the backs of poor farmers?
The ethanol boom for fuel use has consolidated corn farms to the point where the giant agribusinesses engaged in it are going around the ADMs and doing that part of the business on their own while small farmers are pressed to the point of having to take second jobs to keep their farms going and survive. And, in fact, patents already exist for gasoline fuel fuel without ethanol that can be put in your car as is and would cost far less,given up to 50% better mileage and elimination of all deleterious effects on engines and at the same time reduces the three main air pollutants from auto exhaust to zero. Another, engine, patent can, in combination with the fuel patent, reduce engine wear still further.
The questions is, can enough ordinary voting citizens be made aware of these developments to in turn make Trump sufficiently aware of the possibility thus present to make him want to stop the boondoggle heading us down the wrong path? Can conservative media take enough interest to generate the pressure to counter the ethanol lobby on behalf of us ordinary voters or is big boondoggle ethanol impervious to ordinary citizens and their interests and concerns?
Ok, think I got it; read my manual. So, what’s going to happen three options of Ethanol, E85, E15, E10? Then within these, regular, mid, premium?
The gas stations I frequent have as choices:
1) 87 octane E10
2) 89 octane E10
3) 92 or 93 octane E10
4) 88 octane E15
5) Unrated E85
6) Diesel
Some also have
7) 87 octane gasoline (no ethanol)
FWIW, and IMO, the E85 performs like it’s about 93 octane in my Ranger.
1, 2, & 3 come out of the same nozzle. The other options each have their own nozzle.
I am not opposed to this if... the ethanol subsidies are phased out and eliminated. Let the fuels compete fairly.
Partial to leaded gas my self ...
I’m not aware that ethanol MUST be used in engines......My Ford can use it but I’ll never put it in my tank.
Blah blah blah - you sound like the Dems...who appreciate your countdown to dumping the best president this Nation has had...even better than Reagan...in our lifetimes.
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