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End of Ethanol
Washington Free Beacon, by CJ Ciaramella
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 12/4/2012 11:18:46 AM
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| Once heralded as the key to kicking America’s foreign oil addiction by Republicans and Democrats alike, ethanol’s political fortunes have faded and the industry’s future is unclear amid a growing chorus of critics. The industry lost more than $6 billion in annual tax breaks along with a valuable import tariff when Congress declined to renew the subsidies at the end of last year. Several trade groups are now attacking ethanol’s last federal redoubt: The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), which mandates oil producers blend a certain amount of ethanol with traditional gasoline.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
The Architect, 12/4/2012 11:28:21 AM (No. 9047898)
Thank God! Maybe if they discontinue the RFS mandate we can start feeding the hungry again and bringing down the cost of food with our corn surplus instead of wasting it on car fuel.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Northern Redman, 12/4/2012 11:32:53 AM (No. 9047907)
Glad to see it go. That crap is ruining the engine on my 20 year old Jeep.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Keekng, 12/4/2012 11:46:35 AM (No. 9047955)
"End of Ethanol".......We can only hope.
As someone else posted, "corn does not ruin his blender"
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
zoidberg, 12/4/2012 11:54:56 AM (No. 9047981)
Good riddance.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Nevadadad46, 12/4/2012 12:01:31 PM (No. 9047999)
But, but- It´s Green!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
trapper, 12/4/2012 12:09:27 PM (No. 9048027)
First ethanol. Next ... the CAFE standards. After that, democrats in 2014. All bad ideas that will be abandoned. It is only a matter of time.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Johnny Angle, 12/4/2012 12:10:41 PM (No. 9048030)
On to lightbulbs!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
blunderbuss, 12/4/2012 12:11:05 PM (No. 9048031)
The unspoken outcome of the subsidized ethanol fiasco is the rise in food prices world wide. The rise in world food prices was a leading instigator in the so called arab spring. People have died and its time to put this boondogle out to pasture.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
master sergeant, 12/4/2012 12:12:04 PM (No. 9048033)
The farmers will not like this but who cares. The whiny farmers will just have to face the hard facts. Tough!!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
comstock, 12/4/2012 12:19:43 PM (No. 9048047)
Good riddance to a bad mandate. Ethanol is the MTBE of the 21st century. Maybe all those ethanol factories can be re-purposed to produce booze - we´re going to need a lot in the next 4 years.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
OdinsAcolyte, 12/4/2012 12:30:16 PM (No. 9048077)
Burning alcohol for fuel is more dangerous than burning petroleum for fuel and is not as efficient. It was never a good idea. This, like everything else from government, was about money.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
suziesuburbanite, 12/4/2012 12:50:25 PM (No. 9048107)
1. In the amount of fuel and water used to make it ethanol is NOT green.
2. If not changed it WILL cause mass starvation in the world.
3. Why only corn? Sugar cane would make a much better ethanol crop but is not allowed to pay off the midwest farmers.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Kurto, 12/4/2012 12:55:06 PM (No. 9048112)
Now, if we can end the grants, loans, subsidies, and payola to solar and wind. If we had the infrastructure to facilitate CNG trucks and cars, our energy problems would be over. We have more natural gas than we can estimate, and the industry is drilling increasingly more wells. This could have already been done with less money than we have wasted on green ´energy.´
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
lana720, 12/4/2012 1:01:53 PM (No. 9048124)
Yes, it kills your car engine. Stupid move by politicos who do things they know nothing about - see incandescent light bulbs being outlawed.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
southernboy, 12/4/2012 2:17:21 PM (No. 9048261)
#7 ".. Next ... the CAFE standards…"
Absolutely. Even one CAFE standard for the whole country
rather than a different one for every state or city!
Dumb, dumb, dumb axes!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 12/4/2012 2:19:23 PM (No. 9048267)
Ethanol is booze.
Most of your flavoring is imparted after distillation through aging and barreling.
It´s exactly the type of distillate that we find palatable and relatively non-toxic.
Careful temperature control at the still head allows for the removal of methanol and various other non helpful substances.
My grandpa was a shiner but I prefer to operate a fashionable boutique distillery even if it is way back in the woods.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
chumley, 12/4/2012 2:26:11 PM (No. 9048276)
Good! Now maybe I´ll get the gas mileage back that my engine was designed for. I´ve never been able to see how using 10% more fuel to achieve the same thing is "green".
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Coy860, 12/4/2012 2:30:24 PM (No. 9048285)
Frack speed ahead!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
post cretaceous, 12/4/2012 4:01:00 PM (No. 9048449)
Then why is the EPA still wanting to push thru their E-15 mandate? Are they going to do this run-around to get around congress?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee, 12/4/2012 4:24:59 PM (No. 9048488)
Saw a huge banner yesterday, above a convenience store´s gas pumps - NO ETHANOL.
Glad to see it.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 12/4/2012 5:00:47 PM (No. 9048556)
DC funds boondoggles, it never ends one. Has DC ever ended anything?
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