Posted on 07/04/2009 7:19:38 AM PDT by stan_sipple
Good news. Except under the new Marxists in power, ethanol will likely become mandated for a certain percentage of the driving public’s automobiles, no matter the cost or any other problem associated with such a mandate.
Ideas have consequences. Acting on stupid ideas results in poor outcomes.
Burning ethanol for fuel emits twice as much CO2 into the atmosphere than its gasoline equivalent emits.
The Minnesota legislature has mandated 20 percent ethanol for 2012...
If the current administration proves successful with its policies, there will be a greater need for ethanol than ever before.
The Minnesota has mandated a sizeable increase in CO2 emissions.
There was an article back in the winter of a school system that used ethanol in their school buses. When it got really cold, the ethanol froze and they couldn’t run their buses. Apparently gasoline has a lower threshold for freezing, but in Minnesota, they need something that doesn’t freeze.
Eric Peters had an excellent column on how the government mandates higher mileage and then puts out requirements that causes cars to get lower milage. Ethanol is just one of those, 10-15 percent less MPG with 10% Ethanol mixed into gasoline than with pure gasoline.....I found that myself years ago when my Geo Storm milage dropped from 33mpg to 29 mpg for my daily commute in city traffic to work, after the 10% ethanol was made mandatory by the state of Maryland. Geo Storm was 5 speed, 4 cylinder.
I think that was soy oil additized diesel, aka biodiesel. When you get to IA-Minnesota winters, you’d better have more than a tank heater...
Its not how good an idea is which counts, it is how well it is implemented. A poor idea well implemented is better that a good idea poorly implemented. Unfortunately, Uncle Sam tends to come up with poor ideas and to implement them poorly at great expense. The purpose seems to be not whether the idea works or not, but do certain groups or persons become prosperous and does the Federal Government obtain more effective control over certain of our life’s decisions.
All I read is blah blah blah. Maybe the sales are down because it’s crap. The stuff is hard on the engine period.
ethanol makes my van stall out. I have also heard from diesel mechanics that “green diesel” makes engines seize up because the fuel gums them up.
They just can’t leave America alone.
They think they have to change everything.
We’re being led by idiots or wusses in just about every state but Alaska.
Sorry I forgot to say “have a great 4th” keep our fighting men and women in our thoughts as we fire up the BBQ today and for all those attending tea parties this weekend, give ‘em hell.
Climate this year has been colder and wetter (on the ground). Farmers have been delayed in planting. That translates as less fuel use. Add to that the worldwide Obama Depression and there you have it ~ less demand for ethanol.
Ethanol is just more corporate welfare
So, without socialist support, this unmarketable product would have hit the skids early in a capitalist system. Any time you burn food to supplant an easier acquired resource, you have to credit stupidity for the expensive consequences.
With the Senator they just elected, more than half of them should be required to drive ethanol powered clown cars that run on Cutty Sark.
LOL.
Non denatured ethanol I’m thinking.
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