Biden's Energy Inflation Is No Accident

The Biden administration is developing into a sad repeat of the Carter administration’s economic policies, as evidenced by a redux of the 1979 stagflation that brought the type of double-digit inflation and stagnant economic growth we are again seeing today. Ethanol was the rage during Carter’s 1973 OPEC oil embargo crisis. With President Carter entirely onboard with the peak oil crowd, his administration championed ethanol as the way America would achieve energy independence.

Electricity rates are skyrocketing. It's going to cost a lot of power all them supposedly world-saving electric cars.

Energy producing countries laugh at us believing in the "global warming" scam just like half a century ago we believed the "peak oil" scam. Dims creating harmful "solutions" to combat non-existent problems.

It’s intentional, and it has nothing to do with climate change. If climate change is the motive, why would we ask other countries, whose oil production processes are not as clean as ours, to produce more oil.
No, this is an effort to use climate change as a cover to transform this country into a Marxist society. The Marxists behind this effort hate free market capitalism. An abundance of cheap energy is the mothers-mile of free market capitalism, and the Marxists know it. So they set out to cut production/distribution, chase up the cost of gas/oil, and put our economy into the dirt. They know exactly what they are doing.

Exactly the opposite ethanol is a powerful solvent it cleans injectors right out. It also dissolves natural rubber gaskets and hoses with ease. Since the mid 1990s all fuel lines have been made w/o natural rubber they are all lined with acrylonitrile butadiene rubber polymers this due to the E10 mandate. Fuel lines for E10 are fully comparable with E15,E20&E30 as well as E85 the percentage doesn’t matter nitrile is resistant to not only ethanol,but butanol,propanol and hexanol as well. Isopropyl alcohol is used in fuel line deicer and dryer it’s the red HEET bottles at Wal-Mart the blue bottles are methanol. It’s an old boomer myth that modern vehicles cannot handle alcohols. Car manufactures don’t have separate parts nor production lines for flex fuel versions they use identical parts it’s a software patch in the ECU and a single sensor in the fuel line if they even use the sensor most modern flex fuel vehicles use the first of the O2 sensors in wide lamda mode to sense the ethanol contents in the fuel mix. My Volvo and Ford truck both do this they don’t have dedicated ethanol sensors it’s purely software in the ECU they happily run on E85 the only difference is a software patch and a yellow fuel cap this is direct from the manufacturer they also will tell you they only make one version of the engines and fuel systems every one they produce is flex fuel capable they flash the ECU for the EPA fuel credits on some particularly not the USA where they need to meet EPA/CARB fuel econ numbers. By going flex fuel they only get counted for the 15% in the E85 is a loophole. Right now 93 ocrane is 4.89 gal and E85 is 3.69 a gallon at the pumps on the motorway.

In all the years I've cut grass since ethanol became a thing, if I used ethanol free gas in my lawnmower I can leave the gas in it practically forever, even months at a time between grass cutting season, and not have a gummed up carburetor. But if I use gas with ethanol I have to clean out my carburetor at least once every couple of years, even if after my final cut of the season I drain the gas and run the gas out of the lines.

Ethanol gumming up my carburetor doesn't seem to me as evidence that ethanol is a "powerful solvent". Seems quite the opposite to me. But then, I'm not a biologist. By the way, I'm not an "old boomer" either. LOL

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