Posted on 11/16/2013 2:38:55 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday proposed reducing the amount of ethanol that is required to be mixed with the gasoline supply, the first time it has taken steps to slow down the drive to replace fossil fuels with renewable forms of energy.
The move was expected, but it drew bitter complaints from advocates of ethanol, including some environmentalists, who see the corn-based fuel blend as a weapon to fight climate change. It was also unwelcome news to farmers, who noted that the decision came at a time when a record corn crop is expected, and the price of a bushel has fallen almost to the cost of production.
“We’re all just sort of scratching our heads here today and wondering why this administration is telling us to burn less of a clean-burning American fuel,” said Bob Dinneen, president of the Renewable Fuels Association.
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Charles Drevna, president of the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers, said that the ethanol interests were relying on “a continual government program that is an anachronism in 2013, that is seriously flawed, that puts consumers at risk, that consumers don’t want.”
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If you look at the booming whiskey business in China....it’d be a serious mistake not to convert one or two of these over to the liquor industry. Jack Daniels could probably deliver a dozen tractor-trailers of it’s prime stuff to China daily....and still never get to a peak.
They wouldn’t let Bush do it.
There is an old Vulcan. Saying “ only Nixon can go to China”
But I don’t see it happening with the ONE.
This can only mean the EPA will soon be dropping something on us very onerous, so lessening ethanol now to soften the blow.
We should look to sell other in-demand products to China as well... for instance, Plan B One Step, and Mylie Cyrus.
Gov agencies are now little independent thiefdoms allowed to cause havoc on the American public with direction from up above. They are all civil servants that work for us. The employers are now the employees
Absolutely. This was one of W's Big Government scams that also enriched Big Agriculture. It's a terrible deal for regular Americans.
And most federal agencies now have their own police forces thanks to the previous administration.
“We’re all just sort of scratching our heads here today and wondering why this administration is telling us to burn less of a clean-burning American fuel,” said Bob Dinneen, president of the Renewable Fuels Association.
Political a$$ kiss programs designed to win votes and placate groups that would otherwise vote for the good of the country.
This makes you wonder just how some of these people vote.
They’ve twisted public service into, Public? Serve Us!
This makes too much sense for the EPA. Something eviMl must be at play.
Mandated ethanol for fuel was and remains a terrible idea. Try explaining to a six year old that the government mandate has farmers growing food for fuel, increasing the price of food, when we have more than enough natural resources at better pricing.
Any other entity we would appauld this as a sound fiscal and consumers friendly proposal...
But like you said, this is the EPA and only beholden to the executive branch...since Nixon created it by an EO...
Someone evil is afoot...
Probably a shiny distraction...
The requirement was set to increase beyond 10%, which would have meant massive car repair costs nationwide. They’re merely not implementing a scheduled increase rather than reducing the existing 10% requirement. That’s a pity - the GOP could have capitalized on the issue to crap all over the Democrats.
It is very foolish to burn food for fuel when something that cannot be eaten could be burned instead. Moreover, ethanol mandates have the effect of tying the price of food crops to the world price of oil and thus to energy.
Lastly, about 20 years ago I recall being scolded by liberals over how much farmland was being lost to soil erosion. Because of ethanol and biofuel subsidies, we have plowed up and planted millions of acres of marginal land that is now subject to erosion exposure.
(Similarly, I recall some years ago being scolded by liberals about the number of song birds that were killed by flying into cell towers at night. But today, not a single liberal expresses concern over the bird deaths caused by wing power turbines.)
Liberals would just be pitiful except for the real damage they do to the ecology, the economy and to liberty.
But wait, I've been assured by FReepers that the small corn crop is a disaster and people can't afford to eat!
And all ethanol plants make drinkable alcohol. Additives make it non-consumable.
I smell a RAT
ADM contributes too much to the coffers to allow this
Drinkable is not the same as being a food-grade process system of cleanliness and purity.
There is more to ethanol used for human consumption than not being denatured.
Drove a couple of loads of corn to the ethanol plant for a friend last year. Farmers get rid of corn that they would not be able to sell for food by selling it for alcohol. I never saw so many dead rats, coon crap, and dead bugs in a load.
Here's an article I found just now.
Where there used to be grass, now there are gulleys and mud. Another example of government causing questionable rapid changes based on lack of thought.
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