Posted on 02/22/2011 10:17:07 AM PST by george76
The ethanol industry took a shot on Saturday when the U.S. House of Representatives voted to remove funding for the expansion of ethanol in vehicle fuel.
The House voted 285-136 on a measure that blocks the Environmental Protection Agency from raising the cap on ethanol from 10 percent to 15 percent.
The House also voted 261-185 to remove EPA funding to help pay for the special pumps needed to dispense higher blends of ethanol at gas stations.
The measures are part of the House's much larger budget resolution and must survive budget negotiations with the Senate and get a signature from President Obama before they become law. The Senate is considered more supportive of ethanol in part because farm state representation is stronger there.
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They need to kill all ethanol funding just like Reagan did.
NExT UP....get RID of Ethanol funding
AGW ping?
Chances are though, that President could veto this. Let’s hold on to our horses for a little longer on this story.
Excellent. Now let's remove the Federal mandate to put it in gasoline.
That’s a good first step. Now kill the subsidies entirely.
Ethanol production is a net energy loser, on top of which it raises prices for food. GET RID OF IT!
About freaking time. That stuff at 15% could mess up the lining of your gas tank, your oxygen sensor etc. The current auto engines are not built for ethanol except for the flex fuel cars. I was not looking forward to screwing up my CRV which I love just to keep the EPA happy.
They need to shut the EPA down.
Thank God they are trying to do something about this travesty. Grassley and Harkin should be pressured to recuse themselves this time. This needs to be followed. Tell your politicians what you really think of this Iowa bailout law.
Even bought and paid for by Monsanto and ADM Chuckles Grassley(Rino-Iowa) is feeling the US House LOVE:
http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2011/02/22/grassley-would-swallow-anti-ethanol-measures-to-cut-deficit/
I wish it would happen... but Iowa is a welfare state & they are holding our nation hostage.
OH and NE,SD,IL,IN,OH,MO,MN,WI,MI are not??? SCREW YOU!
“The ethanol industry took a shot on Saturday”
Is this opinion, for it could just as easily have been phrased, “The taxpayers who voted last November for smaller government prevailed at least in the case of government support for subsidizing ethanol.”
they are scheming to lay the Blame on the House Republicans.
Much of the corn from which ethanol is presently made comes from farmland that lays over seams of coal that could easily be mined. The US has over 100 years worth of coal and it strikes me as very foolish to convert food to fuel when we could be converting inedible coal into fuel. At present, government is going to cause over 1/3 of the entire corn crop to be turned into ethanol, no matter how high that drives the price of corn and no matter how much that distorts crop planting plans of American farmers.
The left has noted that the riots in Egypt are caused in part by higher food prices, yet they cannot see how their ethanol policy is the primary cause of increased grain prices.
I think that the original idea was to use the leftover corn husks and stalks to produce a limited amount of ethanol...and then the program grew, as farmers saw profits and so did others whose job in life is to live on the taxpayers tit, plus the pols saw votes. However, even using the “waste” husks and stalks means not recycling their nutrients into the soil, further increasing our dependence on oil-based fertilizers. This is just plain a lousy idea.
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