Posted on 08/27/2010 4:49:46 AM PDT by rellimpank
Earlier this year, the Environmental Protection Agency issued another one of those announcements read exclusively by government bureaucrats and green policy wonks. The EPA decided to delay a decision to increase the concentration of ethanol legal in gasoline from 10% to 15%. So-called E15 fuel would have to wait for approval until November.
It was a little-read regulatory decision that barely made a splash in the media. But it was also a rock thrown at Washington's hornets' nest of food and agricultural lobbyists. "We are disappointed," warned food giant Archer Daniels Midland. "We find this further delay unacceptable" and a "dereliction of duty," harrumphed ethanol lobbying group Growth Energy.
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2 words. Algae oil.
Another clear example of Gummit corruption at our expense.
Pray for America
Bureaucratic regs are a commodity. You get as much as you can afford.
And, ethanol is doing a lot of damage to engines and fuel tanks, too. Several people I know with boats have had problems running ethanol, both with engines and in fiberglass fuel tanks. A guy I know that does chain saw repairs says it's causing all sorts of problems with them. Another friend who owns a motorglider is having to replace the wings because the ethanol in the mogas he had been running in it dissolved the fiberglass resin the fuel tanks were made from and structurally weakened the wings.
Ethanol is bad ju-ju on a bunch of fronts. Fortunately, I can still get non-ethanol fuel here in SE Tennessee.....
No. Two more important words: Free Markets.
Those environmentally sound innovations that CAN MAKE IT ON THEIR OWN without gub'ment tax exemptions and (massive) subsidies, will be the real technology which moves us forward.
Check out the innovations in diesel car engines just in the last 20 years for example--NOT from giant subsidies, rather from consumers desiring efficient, powerful, inexpensive and clean-burning transportation.
If you haven't driven a diesel car lately (mostly German brands) you should....they are difficult to tell in driveability from gasoline cars...and tend to get over 40 mpg too.
Most of the advances in diesel technology you speak of have been related to tier standards. Is the new technology cheaper to run LONG TERM? I would say no.
I know that gubmint mandated ULSD destroyed the oring seals on my HPFP... which I was able to C/O on my own... without removing the pump from the car.
Algae oil produces more BTU/acre that soybeans. Of course the cheapest thing to to is to poke holes in the ground... but I wouldn't mind having my own Algae Oil pilot plant... too bad the gubmint would throw me in jail if I tried that and didn't pay excise taxes.
Ah, yes, Senator Dole. He was always known as the senator from Archer Daniels Midland. Note also the complicity of Bush I in this fiasco. Politicians cannot be trusted.
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