Comments on: US Won’t Use Ethanol Congress Ordered

By: mr_bill

mr_bill — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:27:28 +0000

Aside from the poor fuel economic effects of the ethanol dilemma, there is a great deal of harm done to the US food market by this ethanol mandate. The artificial demand placed on corn to meet the orders from Congress has caused an increase in all grain prices and consequently, everything downstream like milk, cereal, meats (from grain fed herds) and just about anything that uses grain in the process somewhere. Its simple supply and demand economics: More corn is (artifically) demanded and the price goes up, farmers plant less of other crops to ‘cash in’ on the higher corn prices so production of other crops falls. In turn the smaller quantity supplied for these other crops causes the price to rise.

By: canary

canary — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:15:10 +0000

Does anyone know how to test gas, to make sure you are getting 100% gas? and not getting ripped. Ethanol is bad on plastic parts of auto’s too.

By: The Redneck

The Redneck — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:27:38 +0000

Can someone find the quote where Algore, back in the 90′s, was pushing for $5-a-gallon gas? I remember folks were talking about it back when Algore was trying to blame Bush for $4.50-a-gallon gas a few years back.

By the time you’ve finished growing, harvesting, and processing biofuels, they’re not only less efficient economically, they also produce more pollution than regular gasoline. Biofuels are a feel-good measure that harm, not help, the environment.

By: take_no_prisoners

take_no_prisoners — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:59:33 +0000

I have a win-win proposition. Take all the excess Ethanol, water it down to 40% ethanol and sell the watered down ethanol at my local Georgia liquor store for $6/gal ;-). I guaran-damn-tee you demand would be through the roof! Repeat this maneuver in all 50 states and the U.S. territories and they wouldn’t be able to make enough!

By: Perdido

Perdido — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:36:22 +0000

$4. gasoline is coming. Bet on it. And way sooner than many (most) think.

After gasoline is over $4. and people realize that their cars will indeed run on E85, designed for it or not, they will start burning it. Then the catalytics will begin to fail. Then they’ve gone full circle on the pollution issue.

Brilliant.

By: Rusty Shackleford

Rusty Shackleford — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:29:33 +0000

I’m not saying I know more than anyone.

I’m not saying that I’m somehow brilliant or even the least bit savant.

But I will say that after examining this a few years ago, reading about it, etc, I came to the conclusion that it was not do-able on a practical level. That there would not be the magical flood of ethanol the greenies expected, to say nothing of the economically backward way this was approached (dictated rather than arrived at by free market demand).

Simple proof that government directives slung onto the people will prove out that the people will go the other way.

Besides, my “clunker” truck that got 15 mpg with regular gasoline got 13.3 with ethanol-tainted regular. 1994 Ford F-150 with a 351 fuel-injected engine. Thanks, government for helping me waste my money. Such efficiency.