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Last Call for Ethanol
Townhall.com ^ | November 29, 2015 | Debra J. Saunders

Posted on 11/29/2015 5:46:00 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: central_va

Your list isn’t up to date. There are two listings near me here in ON that stopped selling non-ethanol gas about a year ago. I asked one of them why they stopped selling it and he said his cost was going up and he didn’t think people would pay an extra few cents for the good stuff. What an idiot. Haven’t bought gas there since, nor do a lot of other people.


61 posted on 11/29/2015 2:12:14 PM PST by Dartman (Notice how Obama and Trudeau are the only two who call ISIS, ISIL? Hmmm ...)
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To: Kaslin

If the Iowa Caucus wasn’t the first event of the campaign season Ethanol would never have been an issue.


62 posted on 11/29/2015 2:16:04 PM PST by McGruff (Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it)
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To: RipSawyer

Probably because of no competition. I know boats and planes can use Ethanol free gas why don’t we get a choice? Liberals can run 100% Ethanol if they really want to save the planet.


63 posted on 11/29/2015 2:20:07 PM PST by McGruff (Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it)
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To: usconservative

Good post. BUMP!


64 posted on 11/29/2015 2:22:12 PM PST by upchuck (In all the world the only forbidden trigger warning is the one which alerts us to our ignorance.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
The ethanol fuel was cheaper.

Always will be. Because the price is subsidized by our 'friends' in WashDC.

So it's not really cheaper. Picture some of your hard-earned taxdollars supporting the price for everyone else.

Not to mention the, probably, millions of dollars of damage ethanol has caused small gas engines.

65 posted on 11/29/2015 2:28:16 PM PST by upchuck (In all the world the only forbidden trigger warning is the one which alerts us to our ignorance.)
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Always will be. Because the price is subsidized by our 'friends' in WashDC.

I was responding to Thacher, who just got done saying the subsidy went away a couple of years ago.

66 posted on 11/29/2015 8:14:15 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Thackney


67 posted on 11/29/2015 8:14:50 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: usconservative
I guess you missed the part that processing corn into ethanol and ethanol mash is actually more expensive in the first place. Again, it takes more energy to produce ethanol, than the energy ethanol returns. I don't care that one of the end products, ethanol mash is then fed to cattle. It still has to be processed and there's an expense component to that, which you're missing.

It doesn't matter if it isn't subsidized. Either it's viable on the free market or it isn't.

If it isn't...it will "wither on the vine".

68 posted on 11/29/2015 8:20:12 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: usconservative

Well then if not beef or potato chips, exactly what high food prices are you complaining about...grits?

Pork, sweet corn, corn chips and vegetable are cheap enough...and yes, grits too.


69 posted on 11/29/2015 8:32:34 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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