[thackney]

Also:

EPA considers U.S. ethanol mandate cut amid complaints
http://fuelfix.com/blog/2013/10/11/epa-considers-u-s-ethanol-mandate-cut-amid-complaints/

Bloomberg content on this second story so link only for it.

[Obadiah]

Hope springs eternal. Ethanol sucks, and time will tell, but right now my money is on the corn growers and their eco allies.

[SES1066]

YET, in spite of a Federal Court decision of last January, this EPA decision STILL INCLUDES the requirement for an imaginary fuel;

The EPA is also considering dropping the requirement for cellulosic fuels to just 23 million gallons from 1.75 billion gallons as required in the law, as production of fuels made from scrap wood or corn husks has failed to grow as expected, according to the proposal. (from the report cited in post #1)

[Will88]

Instead, the severe recession and rising vehicle fuel efficiency led to a sharp drop in gasoline demand: 133 billion gallons are now projected to be consumed in 2014, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), down from an estimate in 2007 of 154 billion.

And to be even more specific, gasoline consumption has dropped because the price has about doubled since 2007, from around $2.00 per gallon to almost $4.00. Probably has a lot more to do with decreased consumption than increased fuel efficiency.

[tcrlaf]

Ethanol pretty much destroyed the motor of my Classic car this spring. I finally had enough of constantly checking and repairing the fuel system, and the corroded pistons were the last straw.

[Gasshog]

eat corn. drink corn.

dont burn it.

[muir_redwoods]

Convergence is not causality but the price of both beef and gasoline has headed straight north since the ethanol mandate. I bought stew beef yesterday at the bargain price of $4.49/ lb. and gasoline at $3.55/ga.

[theBuckwheat]

Ethanol mandates have the economic effect of tying the price of food crops to the world price of energy. But this shows how foolish and rabid biofuel advocates are. A few decades ago, similar eco-fools were scolding us about erosion of farmland. Now, like advocates of wind power who downplay the raptor an song bird death toll, they are so fixated on a particular utopian issue they are willfully ignorant of the collateral damage to the eco system they are causing.

Why should any rational person advocate burning food as a fuel when we can burn something that cannot be used as food?

[center mass]

Still seeing a few stations advertising ethanol-free gas. Most of them are Conoco brand. I wish they were a little closer, it would be all I would buy.

[TurboZamboni]

Meanwhile Chuck Grassley joined Amy Klobuchar to sue ‘big oil’ to have the FTC MAKE gas stations sell productions other than their own (forced ethanol)

how’s that for ‘rock solid’ conservative values?