Posted on 10/13/2010 12:36:11 PM PDT by Razzz42
...On the food price front – corn finally moved lower today after reaching a peak of $5.88/bushel. If this was not high enough, news that the “far seeing” Administration will announce an increase in the amount of ethanol allowed in gasoline blends from the current 10% to 15% was met with strong opposition from just about everyone except for ethanol industry ( no surprise there). Even the National Resources Defense Council, an environmental group, voiced opposition to the move saying that it posed serious risks to, “engines, wildlife, water and the air”. That in itself is remarkable considering most environmental groups never met a food product that they would prefer to burn as fuel.
Such a move, should it proceed would wreck havoc on the livestock and poultry sectors, void millions of auto manufacturer engine warranties, and devastate thousands of family owned gasoline stations who would bear the brunt of the new policy. The problem is only cars and trucks from 2007 and newer could run on the E15 (currently the ethanol blended gasoline is E10). Think about the confusion at the gas station where car owners would be lining up at various pumps depending on what year model their car is! If this keeps up, filling up the car at the gas station is going to be like having to choose only one paint color off of one of those paint charts at Home Depot. It will take an hour to decide which pump to pull the truck up to.
Leave it to moronic government intervention to once again make our lives simpler. I keep waiting for warp drive automobiles to be invented so I can hit Warp Factor 8 and find a place in this universe not invested with government bureaucrats and meddling politicians...
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A lot people don’t realize this but prohibition was funded by those who didn’t want people living in rural areas to producing their own fuel.
I disagree with all of the subsidies that are used for ethanol production. But I think that people should be able to produce their own fuel and the occasional mason jar of white lightnin’ . If they could most farmers would be able to run their own plants turning left over biomatter into fuel to run their own farms with. Instead there is more restriction and control by the government.
Can’t have people living in freedom, and not paying taxes to public union goons, now can we?
And,
Trader Dan BUMPS!!!!
… increase in the amount of ethanol allowed in gasoline blends from the current 10% to 15% …
Great. When 10% corn whiskey was added to gasoline my mileage dropped by 10%. Now it will drop again. What’s the advantage?
So, a gas station can post a sign saying ‘’ we have the 15% ethanol gas’’ and watch people avoid that station like the plague.
A lot people don’t realize this but prohibition was funded by those who didn’t want people living in rural areas to producing their own fuel.
More like, never let a crisis go to waste. Find a way to make a buck on it then pass a law to insure it’s happening.
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