Posted on 12/07/2015 3:18:05 PM PST by McGruff
On November 30, as the Paris international climate conference was getting underway, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a long-overdue update of Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) requirements. Originally established in 2005 and then greatly expanded by the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007, the RFS mandates increasing use of ethanol, biodiesel and other biofuels in America's cars and trucks.
Two things were notable. For the first time, EPA set the overall mandate at levels significantly lower than targets Congress called for in 2007. Second, raising the hackles of the biofuel lobby, the Obama administration omitted the RFS from its official submission in Paris about actions the U.S. is taking to cut carbon emissions.
In other words, the EPA seems to realize that the nation's dream plan for green fuels was unrealistic, and the Obama administration is tacitly admitting that biofuels aren't better than fossil fuels when it comes to greenhouse gases. In fact, they are worse
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I love ethanol. Ethanol holds the fabric of civilization together. However to put it in your car and burn it is a crime against humanity. It should be lovingly stored in charred oak barrels for many years. Lo these many years later we call it Scotch, Bourbon etc.
If I want to make a fire inside an internal combustion engine, I use gasoline.
Ten million Scotsmen and one hundred million Rednecks cant be wrong.
LOL. I need a sip.
Bio diesel ruins injector pumps and injectors. I’ve had experience. It’s total junk.
"Me too!" I say, as I sit here sipping a rocks glass of Bulleit rye!
Biofuels were NEVER about cutting emissions - they have been solely due to an unholy alliance of those who want to pander to farmers plus those who will do ANYthing to increase the price of gasoline at the pump.
Let's get rid of sugar subsidies while we're at it.
That “blend wall” business the author mentions is total bullshit: there is no “Safe level” of ethanol in gasoline: just ask a boat owner ripping the fibreglas fuel tanks out of his older classic boat because the ethanol dissolves them.
Or the motorcyclist having to buy a hand-made custom fuel tank to replace the beautiful fibreglas tank his bike came with.
We went to ethanol fuels because it was working so well in Brasil, and God knows, Brasil is a very model for successful endeavor...
/sarc
Very good Rye,although I’m a Bourbon guy.
What do you think of Whistle Pig Rye?
(Even Obama does something that I agree with every once in a while.)
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