Posted on 10/06/2013 8:55:20 AM PDT by Kaslin
Just another scam. Just look at what has happened to the price of corn....any questions??
It’s a scam to pour money into the coffers of agribusiness and from there to politicians.
The people pay for it with higher prices as the government forces them to burn their grain rather than letting them and their livestock eat it.
It is dangerous to food supplies to mandate burning grain as motor vehicle fuel instead of burning something that cannot be food. At the very least, the law should be amended to allow suspending the mandate when the value of grain as a fuel becomes so far out of sync with its value as a food.
Here in Gulf Coast Florida we are being plagued by a smarmy TV Ad, “Mr Slick and Dummy” done by “Growth Energy”, a pro-ethanol trade group. As to expected from an advocacy ad, it is totally one-sided but when the intelligent consumer knows the background, it is even more icky than usual. Worse it gets the stamp of approval from many eco groups who should know better.
In my opinion, this love of ethanol is somewhat akin to a belief in ghosts.
It pollutes more, has less energy than gasoline thus lowering mpg, and ups the cost of gasoline at the pump.
Here’s a great website that lists ethanol-free gasoline stations.
http://pure-gas.org/
Ethanol does not burn clean at all. But it is made from Corn=— key element of the politics.... food, commodities, corn lobby and bioengineering (monsanto/bayer).
Methanol (wood alcohol, made from anything with cellulose) burns clean.. does not have these effects on engines (dragsters use it btw) and can be made by ANYONE with knowledge. The idea of grass clippings, wood chips etc.
Ethanol lobby, corn lobby, using petro fertilizers and massive amounts of what could be drinking water to make— a fuel dilutent that does not burn clean to our air— what sheer idiocy.
Make methanol at home, buy 100% gasoline and dilute it yourself. Ethanol is and was a scam— massive BS.
In a world where babies still starve, using food for fuel, in a nation that has as much coal and natural gas as we have, is obscene.
One one hand we hear how we can not sustain increase in population then we make laws that require us to burn our food. Who does that??? Crazy liberals, thats who.
The whole story sounds like a inflated analogy for something bad. This is like its own absurd analogy. You can’t come up with a more crazy comparison.
Junk science = Junk solutions = Junk fuel and excuse to pad the pockets of a whole lot of people.
The farm belt has had an energy boom for the last decade. It has been wonderful and a resurrection of the last failed ethanol initiative.
Lots of companies and people prosper... I don’t mind earned prosperity but this is all artificial and comes on the backs of taxpayers and consumers. It is nothing but a convenient gift to agriculture.
Farmers have become rich. Farmers who did OK have hit the jackpot at the expense of many others
Farm equipment manufacturers have done very well and prices for equipment are outrageous.
ADM and Cargill have made a fortune
Farm land prices have exploded
Food costs have exploded
The land is being raped by corn... to get these yields is not much more than hydroponics
The runoff is laced with nitrates and chemicals... how much pollution has been prevented... none. I venture to say the result is a net gain in pollution.
Check it out at http://green.autoblog.com/2012/08/22/la-smog-has-less-of-a-chokehold-than-years-ago-noaa-study-says/
Won't the Carbon Idiots have a fit when they discover that alcohol IS a hydrocarbon?
The air in Los Angeles got considerably cleaner way before the introduction of alcohol in the gasoline. Smaller,lighter cars, more efficient internal combustion engines were the real reason.
Just noticed that you're in Oregon.
I grew up in LA and remember the days when trash wasn't picked up ... we had backyard firepits. And then along came the post WW-II baby boom and population numbers went up and up. The smog wan't all that bad in WW-II days, but the smog later became bothersome. So fire-pits were banned, trast pickup started; the population boom went on; freeways arrived, and both went on and on ... leading to a massive automobile smog problem ... Solved with additives added to gasoline.
Today, auto mileage in LA is about 10% less than auto mileage using gas bought outside the LA area.
The first cellulosic alcohol plants are being built so it is a matter of time as the technology further develops that corn will be replaced by switch grass and kudzu.
Fine, if the “alcohol” is methanol, wood alcohol as the goal not something that creates ethanol.
Large amounts of methanol can harm synthetic fuel system components. Be careful especially with older engines.
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