Trump was for that early on, though I’d like to see him perform a brutally honest energy audit on the process.
Is it burning as much foreign oil as it saves? Abstaining as much as possible from Islamic sourced oil, at least, may be wise — if it actually HAPPENS by virtue of the ethanol fuel push. I want an audit, and a national discussion about the results, before any precipitous action. This corn isn’t edible without special processing. You’d choke on it if you tried to eat it on the cob. But it brews nicely.
Very astute observations HiTech. Corn has many uses and by-products- DDG, oil, plastics, CO2 generation, etc. as well as ethanol. This battle with oil will be totally unnecessary if Trump opens up more exploration and we tell the Saudis to cram it. The U.S. can produce it’s own energy now.
“Is it burning as much foreign oil as it saves?”
I see your point. I bought a Ford F150 ecoboost which is a flex fuel engine made to run on 85% ethanol.
We live in a winter climate 6 mo out of the year. The guy I bought it from said never run 85% ethanol. He says it may not start in the winter, starts in general may be poor, and it will give surprisingly low fuel economy. The owners manual says essentially the same thing.
Don’t get me going on small engines.
Ethanol is a joke. It’s a shame we all must suffer so some Iowa farmers can get rich.