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2020-04-21 Government
EPA Looks At Suspending Ethanol Blending Requirement
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Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-21 07:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 Remind me again, what was the original purpose of the ethanol additive, and how many years have we now led the world in oil production ?
Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-21 07:18||   2020-04-21 07:18|| Front Page Top

#2 the real purposes of the ethanol requirement included virtue signaling but to the ag community this was always just a back door subsidy to corn producers
Posted by lord garth 2020-04-21 07:25||   2020-04-21 07:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Huge for the farmers around here. Maybe they'd go back to sweetcorn or field (feed) corn.

The latter would lower meat prices a bit.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-04-21 08:22||   2020-04-21 08:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Please. Ruins engines and there is no need for this shit.
Posted by DarthVader 2020-04-21 09:17||   2020-04-21 09:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Call me when they actually do it.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2020-04-21 09:34||   2020-04-21 09:34|| Front Page Top

#6 Glad I have a Diesel.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2020-04-21 11:12||   2020-04-21 11:12|| Front Page Top

#7 That will help tortilla prices south of the border.
Posted by Clem 2020-04-21 11:16||   2020-04-21 11:16|| Front Page Top

#8 I think the original purpose of the ethanol mandate was to get votes in Iowa.

However, we have just finished the Iowa caucuses and won't have them again for four years...so now is the time.
Posted by Tom 2020-04-21 11:37||   2020-04-21 11:37|| Front Page Top

#9 The original purpose was part of the Energy Independence Programs of the 1970s as a result of the Oil Embargo and the fact that we were still heavily engaged in the Cold War. They were also looking into programs like converting goal...

Why we kept it? Corruption...
Posted by magpie 2020-04-21 12:35||   2020-04-21 12:35|| Front Page Top

#10 /\ "...like converting coal."
Posted by magpie 2020-04-21 12:36||   2020-04-21 12:36|| Front Page Top

#11 Repurpose as hand cleaner.
Posted by KBK 2020-04-21 12:59||   2020-04-21 12:59|| Front Page Top

#12 "Who needs oil? I ride the bus!"

(too obscure?)
Posted by Raj 2020-04-21 13:51||   2020-04-21 13:51|| Front Page Top

#13 Nope
Posted by Frank G 2020-04-21 14:24||   2020-04-21 14:24|| Front Page Top

#14 EPA Looks At Suspending Ethanol Blending Requirement

It may will cost a bit more, but we have to do it.
Unleaded Snark O'The Day
Posted by gorb 2020-04-21 14:48||   2020-04-21 14:48|| Front Page Top

#15 Converting foodstuff to ethanol needs a better justification than buying votes in the Corn Belt.
Posted by magpie 2020-04-21 16:19||   2020-04-21 16:19|| Front Page Top

#16 Another argument, IIRC, was the amount of energy req'd to make ethanol...more than the ethanol itself would produce.

Yeah, that was simply to buy off the farm belt gang...probably Mansanto, too.
Posted by Clem 2020-04-21 16:46||   2020-04-21 16:46|| Front Page Top

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