I like ethanol. What I don’t like are the government subsidies, including the ones which mandate how much should be blended into our gasoline.
Ethanol needs to stand on it’s own.
I would like to see a four or five year phase out. An immediate phase out would bankrupt the farming industry and seriously disrupt our food supply chain.
What would we then do with all our surplus food? I don’t know, but I’m sure a solution would be found.
Yeah. I agree with all those things...I just don’t think it is financially beneficial. You can’t pipe it, it has to be trucked, it absorbs water, it is corrosive...well, you know all that.
A car cannot get the same MPG out of it, so it has to be blended to gas.
It is, to me, a Rube Goldbergian approach to an energy problem.
Like you said, though, we have the problem now, a lot of farmers are invested in it, and we have to find a way forward.
By the way, I find myself in many of same threads you are in, and I always enjoy your commentary. Keep up the good work!