Posted on 06/28/2002 10:16:53 AM PDT by Trailer Trash
Edited on 07/07/2004 4:48:20 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Washington -- Alaska Congressman Don Young sounded off Thursday against senators who want to increase the nation's use of ethanol as House and Senate members met to begin negotiations on the energy bill.
"They're not going to walk over me," he vowed during the opening session of the conference committee charged with reconciling the differences between the House and Senate energy bills.
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The wrong one, naturally.
Kerry is a big "renewable" advocate, along with anything else that doesn't function well and would raise energy prices considerably.
This is Young's real concern -- he wants that tax revenue!
This has nothing to do with ANWR -- my understanding is that even if it were opened tomorrow there would be no sense in drilling there unless oil was trading at $27-$33 per barrel over the long term.
When you consider the practical results of all liberal programs, whether welfare, voting rights, energy policy, environmentalism, the farm bill, education, and on and on, you can't help but conclude that they are anti-America. All of their policies handicap our progress, slow our growth, grow our government and restrict our freedom. They are Anti-America, period!.
No, but it makes more and more sense after the 3rd glass of it.
Are they not trucking the ethanol to the refineries?
Seriously, ethanol makes great sense if you are a senator from a farm state. But the great improvements we have seen in air quality over the last several years are not due to ethanol, or MTBE, but rather to improvements in engine design. Emissions will continue to improve as engines improve, and as new engine technologies come into use.
MTBE was a make-work project the pols imposed on the oil companies, which added cost to gasoline, put some of the smaller refiners out of business, thus reducing competition, thus also raising prices.
The cost of dismantling the MTBE facilities, and the costs of trucking in ethanol, and the cost of the ethanol itself, will all add to the cost of gasoline. That will be useful, also, as senators grandstand about the rising cost of gasoline.
Gasoline & ethanol can be blended in any percentage so can Diesel and Biodiesel (vegetable oil)
Ethanol (grain alcohol) & Biodiesel (vegetable oil) are farm crops the U.S. farms out produces the world
The U.S. Government pays farmer not to produce (dumb) the Government needs to stop this and farmer need to turn any excess crop to fuel
So go open up U.S. oil drilling in ANWR, offshore, wherever you find oil in the U.S.
Make up any oil shortfall in blending in ethanol and Biodiesel (because you grow what you need)
The U.S. can be oil independent if we want and not by Government mandated electric cars or SUV killing fuel economy laws
But bottom line when crunch time happens I want to see the U.S. be able to meet its needs 100% in house
Then tell the world to pound sand
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