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2013-11-16 Government

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Posted by Besoeker 2013-11-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Looks once again that the Democrats or DemoLeft aren't waiting after the EOY 2013-2014 holiday season + session breaks to hit the GOP-Right hard.

Unless Boehner can effec maintain GOP unity, I predict that the GOP will panic again + Dems will prevail as per ObamaCare, Immigration, Debt Ceiling, etc.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-11-16 00:29|| 2013-11-16 00:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Ethanol isn't as green as it's cracked up to be.
http://host.madison.com/news/prairies-vanish-in-the-us-push-for-green-energy/article_a5b754dd-80e6-504b-a035-83745d7dd447.html

Posted by mom 2013-11-16 00:48|| 2013-11-16 00:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Burning perfectly drinkable ethanol while the land gushes with oil and natural gas? Beware the wrath of Dionysus!

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-11-16 07:03|| 2013-11-16 07:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Need some PAC money from Big Oil for the 2014 election campaigning?

Posted by Skidmark 2013-11-16 08:24|| 2013-11-16 08:24|| Front Page Top

#5 A quote from this article: the ethanol mandate is "a fundamentally flawed program that limps along year after year, wreaking havoc on those required to participate, including the American consumer."
This could be just as well applied to Obamacare, and the remedy is the same: congressional repeal of legislation authorizing the program.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2013-11-16 12:55|| 2013-11-16 12:55|| Front Page Top

#6 ALCOHOL BURNS, NOT AS GOOD AS gasoline, BUT IT BURNS, that's the whole ethanol practice, now get a burning substance that burns as well as Gasoline, and use it.

At present there is none.

This mandate (Filthy word) Is the best available (And the cheapest, which is part of the calculation) and it's "Weighted" as such.(It's favored BECAUSE it's cheap)

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-11-16 13:10|| 2013-11-16 13:10|| Front Page Top

#7 So tell me ageen, hows a man sposta make a livin, if he ain't doin squeezens?

Posted by Phusoger Prince of the Lichtensteiners7911 2013-11-16 13:15|| 2013-11-16 13:15|| Front Page Top

#8 As much as I despise Obama, he is not the one who created the ethanol mandate - it was Congress, before Obama's time. It was a buyoff for the critters from corn states.

Because so much corn is turned into ethanol, worldwide food prices have risen. This means that poor people are less able to buy the food they need.

Luckily for the US government, the poor people are in other countries, so we don't see them.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2013-11-16 13:17|| 2013-11-16 13:17|| Front Page Top

#9 http://www.eutimes.net/2013/11/us-ethanol-revolution-causes-ecological-disaster/

Posted by Dale 2013-11-16 16:39|| 2013-11-16 16:39|| Front Page Top

#10 Rambler raises an interesting point. Grain belt farmers won't be so happy about this. Guess they just don't contribute as much as oil men.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2013-11-16 18:12|| 2013-11-16 18:12|| Front Page Top

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