[Sacajaweau]

I’m going to guess that we will be importing it from Brazil.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From the Detroit News article:

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Washington —The United States has ended a 30-year tax subsidy for corn-based ethanol that cost taxpayers $6 billion annually, and ended a tariff on imported Brazilian ethanol.

[The Great RJ]

Corn ethanol has always been a boondoggle and has been little more than an elaborate farm subsidy program. Without the subsidies watch the price of ethanol/gasoline blends go up and consumers will abandon gasohol.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[CodeToad]

About time.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The subsidy has ended, but not the mandate.

This means $5 a gallon gasoline by November 6, 2012.

Buh-bye, Barry.

[IronJack]

Barack just lost most of the Midwest.

[LomanBill]

Corn ethanol is not sustainable, and the farmers I’ve talked to know it... but they’re locked into the Govt underwritten merrygoround of debt and increased production for their survival.

Part of the death spiral for the American Heartland.

[Sacajaweau]

http://southwestfarmpress.com/government/dance-ethanol-giants-us-and-brazil-shuffle-game

[Repeal The 17th]

Range Fuels broke ground on its first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol facility in Soperton, Georgia in November 2007.

The plant plant was built, and ran one batch of alcohol in January 2011
as proof of meeting conditions set by grants and financiers,
and was then immediately shut down because it was not profitable to operate.

All of this after receiving:
a $76 million grant from the US Department of Energy,
a $6 million grant from the State of Georgia,
and an $80 million loan guaranteed by the U.S. Biorefinery Assistance Program.

08/19/2010
Range Fuels Begins Commercial Cellulosic Operations in Georgia
http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/20885

01/24/2011
Range Fuels Closing Georgia Cellulosic Ethanol Plant
http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/21755

[NormsRevenge]

a cousin of mine built a ethanol plant in a barn along time ago in Minniesoda. I don't think he got any subsidies tho. he then went into fish emulsion after that flopped. ya need a lot of corn to make the ethanol.

side note.. I seen where Kellogg's may stop making Corn Pops next year. what next? Cocoa Puffs? Cap'n Crunch?

posted from a lowly single processor laptop. (but I'm looking)

[pallis]

The sooner they get dirty ethanol out of my gas the better.

[Born to Conserve]

Is its use still mandated? Gas prices are going to go up.

[Born to Conserve]

This was always the plan. Make it seem free at first, then stick it to the middle class.

They did the same thing with the ocean fishing license; free the first year so nobody complains, then charge.

There really needs to be a gallows in downtown Washington D.C. Even if they don’t use it, it should be there, in the windows, as they vote.

[steveab]

Write your congress and demand an end to EPA’s ethanol mandates.