Posted on 01/02/2018 1:05:57 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
Well, there's your problem ...
“In truth, the RFS makes crystal clear economic sense”
“Former Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., is co-chair of Americans for Energy Security and Innovation, a non-profit organization supported by biofuels producers and investors across the country.”
No to subsidies.
Very nice analysis of bio-fuels. Only one problem with it. It did not say one damn thing about federal subsides for ethanol fuels.
I think ethanol is great if it can compete in a free market against other non subsidized energy sources.
Get the alcohol out of my gasoline.
Ethanol increases emissions, wastes water, and artficially increases food prices.
Trump and this administration don’t believe in GHG b.s. time to kill this pig.
So Rick got a new gig? Wasn’t he the head guy on some Christian movie company a while back?
Biofuel damages gasoline engines from what I’ve heard.
Eat food, burn fuel.
A blatant lie or a careful contortion of words. As biofuels are more expensive than refined products and are less efficient, their use costs MORE. Saying it saves "gasoline expenses" is true, but not FUEL expenses.
This article was obviously written by an intern at ADM.
From what I have read before, that it takes approximately 1 and 1/3 gal of oil to make 1 gal of bio fuel ... how exactly has this boondoggle helped save people the $143/yr on gas purchases?
Did the author calculate in the repair costs of untold millions of small engines plus wasted fuel from people pumping out their tanks because of old spoiled fuel?
“...research shows that cellulosic biofuels can cut emissions by 100 percent or more.”
Okay, when Mr. Santorum explains how ANYTHING can be CUT by more than 100 percent then maybe I will take him seriously...but I doubt it.
The “sea of cash” the article refers to is misleading. the last time I checked, the average net rate of return for the oil industry was about 7%.
The article also fails to point out the negative effect of ethanol production. Because so much of the corn is now going to bio fuels, the cost to the consumer for meat has risen exponentially.
I don’t believe it even reduces gasoline consumption by enough to talk about considering the reduction in miles per gallon it would seem to mean using nearly the same amount of gasoline but with alcohol added.
Should have list of has beens, holier-than-thou hypocrits, liars, and losers: Lyn' Ted, Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Santorum, and others.
I think most of the problems with fuel system damage due to biofuels have been resolved... IF you have a newer vehicle. What the added cost is, of the “adapted” materials and components, I do not know. (I say “adapted” rather than “improved”, because if biofuels are not a “+” after ALL factors are considered, including subsidies, then the change is not really an “improvement”.)
A lot of forested land around here has been cleared for cropland in the last few years — almost all in a corn / soybean rotation. These are mostly “mature” tree stands, and the trees are invariably just burned. What the long term impact will be, I am unsure.
At any rate Sen. Santorum is presenting a “half truth” at best.
That said, there is also a political side to this that Pres. Trump probably “needs”... Perhaps I should consider the taxes I pay that go to biofuel subsidies as a sort of involuntary campaign contribution.
I've known this swamp creature for over two decades, met him on a 7:00 AM USAir flight to DC back in the 90's and we shared the same ride for several years after that.
When he was a House rep, he was a true conservative, had morals and convictions, and kept his word.
The longer he stayed in the swamp and the higher he got on the pole, the more sleazy he became, until now, he is for rent by the highest bidder.
Rick is no longer a person that can be trusted, he is a true swamp dweller.
Beef has become totally outrageous cattle don’t eat corn do they??? I thought only pigs ate corn and the price of pork is NO WHERE near the cost of beef!!!
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