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To: curiosity

54 cents per gallon. Header is deceptive, should read "Ethanol Boom Shifts Subsidies."


9 posted on 01/24/2007 1:10:12 PM PST by appeal2
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To: appeal2
54 cents per gallon. Header is deceptive, should read "Ethanol Boom Shifts Subsidies."

You said it.

10 posted on 01/24/2007 1:12:27 PM PST by curiosity
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"54 cents per gallon."

That tax credit has actually dropped to 51 cents a gallon now, and that's for each gallon of pure ethanol blended with gasoline. So the blender gets a 5.1 cent tax credit for each gallon of E10 he blends. The farmers don't get this "blender's credit," and in most cases the ethanol producers don't get it either because they generally aren't the ones blending the ethanol in with gasoline. The blender is generally going to be the gasoline/oil company that provides your gas station with gasoline. No doubt the tax credit does help lower the price at the pump so the farmers and ethanol producers do benefit from this tax credit in a 'round about way.


31 posted on 01/24/2007 8:55:56 PM PST by TKDietz (")
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