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Economy
Biden authorizes the emergency sale of ethanol-based E15 fuel this summer to combat soaring gas prices and help save 10 cents a gallon - despite smog and health concerns
2022-04-30
  • The Environmental Protection Agency issued an emergency waiver on Friday

  • Will allow for the sale of the higher-ethanol gasoline blend= through the summer

  • White House press secretary Jen Psaki says it will save drivers 10 cents a gallon

  • It also is an attempt to temper the pace of inflation which has surged to a 16-year high and bring down gas prices that average $4.159 a gallon nationwide

  • Biden first unveiled the plans to expand E15 sales earlier this month during a trip to an Iowa ethanol plant

  • Rising consumer prices are seen as a major vulnerability for President Joe Biden's Democratic party leading into the November mid-term elections
Posted by:Skidmark

#6  BTW: With the USA already using 5.5 billion bushels of corn to produce the 90/10 gas we use now.

The 85/15 will reduce the corn corp for human consumption by another 2.25 Billion Bushels.

USA farmers are expected to grow 13.6 billion bushels of corn IF we have a good growing season.

13.60 Billion Bushels (BB) grown
7.75 BB used for Gas & Industry.
5.65 BB Used for animal feed and residual consumption.
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Leaving just 0.2 Billion Bushels for export and various other uses. I would say this is cutting pretty close a

OBTW: A reminder of one of my recent postings.
I have been seeing a lot of Wheat planted and harvested here in the Middle Ga. Belt area.
Recently in the Hephzibah Ga area we just saw over a 1000 ac. of great farm land broken up and sold to build Subdivisions.

As the population grows farm land shrinks.






Posted by: NN2N1   2022-04-30 19:36  

#5  IMPORTANT NOTES:
The scientific jury is still out on whether blending ethanol with gasoline lead to the lower carbon emissions.

A 2011 report by the National Research Council, which is part of the U.S. National Academies, found that it may do just the opposite, and the matter is under (still) official review by the Environmental Protection Agency’s internal watchdog.

A team headed by Timothy Searchinger, a Princeton University research scholar. Projecting worldwide effects of converting large amounts of U.S. farmland to producing corn for fuel rather than for food. The study said that “we found that corn-based ethanol, instead of producing a 20% savings [the reduction required by law], nearly doubles greenhouse emissions over 30 years..."

NOT SO CLEAN TO PRODUCE
"Unfortunately, the production of these fuels (Ethanol) creates a major problem due to high level of VOCs (volatile organic compounds), hazardous air pollutants (HAPs), nitrogen oxides (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO), and particulate matter (PM) produced during the production."

Posted by: NN2N1   2022-04-30 17:17  

#4  Ask yourself, where does ethanol come from. Your right, crops are grown to create it. Is the world concerned about a food shortage? The answer is yes! Is Cali and the west suffering a water shortage? The answer is Yes. Water is being pumped to produce ethanol. Stupid Biteone.
Posted by: Papa Cooky   2022-04-30 13:18  

#3  Happily, here in Floridaland, I can pump that crap and top off with no-ethanol gas, which is available just about everywhere because of outboard motors. Yes, it costs more, but I don't have to wreck my 14 year old Jeep motor just because Joe is flailing.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-04-30 11:02  

#2  
Posted by: Frank G   2022-04-30 10:41  

#1  He will fail just as Clinton did over the winter heating oil fiasco when Clinton tapped into the reserves.
Posted by: crazyhorse   2022-04-30 10:36  

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