“First, I have to ask why you think that gasoline with blended ethanol is even an issue. “
Exactly, hubel458, has not read the article. Blended fuel is NOT the concern! It is the rail tank car and truck -tanker ethanol loads that is the concern.
http://www.firefightingnews.com/article-US.cfm?articleID=46718
Courtesy ping to post 12.
I know what the gist article is and it is bull.
They are giving the impression that we have railcars
and trucks burning all over the landscape.
And putting ethanol in gas isn’t causing a raise in
food prices. My Dairy Farm neibors get less for the
milk than 5 years ago. The raise in farm commodity prices,
like oil, is from speculators playing around with money
that isn’t in real estate, etc. Up to three years ago we were sued by other countries for cheap surplus cotton and
corm being dumped by us, hurting their farmers. And there
most corn acreage increase has come from cotton acres
ands their still is worldwide a cotton surplus. If wheat goes from 4 bucks to 8 bucks the amount of money in a loaf of bread, of wheat goes from 6cents to 12. And middlemen
add 10 times the raise, and have you blame farms and
ethanol. There is no corn farm subsidy. Farm bill is
mosly food stamps and conservation programs. CRP pays
to not farm 31 million acres. That amount added to the
92 million acres of corn could put 10% ethanol in
all gas, which makes it burn cleaner and get an extra
mile per gallon in our older engines.And cut down
on importing oil. and indirectly also increases
refinery capacity. Ed