If you look at the booming whiskey business in China....it’d be a serious mistake not to convert one or two of these over to the liquor industry. Jack Daniels could probably deliver a dozen tractor-trailers of it’s prime stuff to China daily....and still never get to a peak.
They wouldn’t let Bush do it.
There is an old Vulcan. Saying “ only Nixon can go to China”
But I don’t see it happening with the ONE.
This can only mean the EPA will soon be dropping something on us very onerous, so lessening ethanol now to soften the blow.
Gov agencies are now little independent thiefdoms allowed to cause havoc on the American public with direction from up above. They are all civil servants that work for us. The employers are now the employees
Absolutely. This was one of W's Big Government scams that also enriched Big Agriculture. It's a terrible deal for regular Americans.
This makes too much sense for the EPA. Something eviMl must be at play.
Mandated ethanol for fuel was and remains a terrible idea. Try explaining to a six year old that the government mandate has farmers growing food for fuel, increasing the price of food, when we have more than enough natural resources at better pricing.
The requirement was set to increase beyond 10%, which would have meant massive car repair costs nationwide. They’re merely not implementing a scheduled increase rather than reducing the existing 10% requirement. That’s a pity - the GOP could have capitalized on the issue to crap all over the Democrats.
It is very foolish to burn food for fuel when something that cannot be eaten could be burned instead. Moreover, ethanol mandates have the effect of tying the price of food crops to the world price of oil and thus to energy.
Lastly, about 20 years ago I recall being scolded by liberals over how much farmland was being lost to soil erosion. Because of ethanol and biofuel subsidies, we have plowed up and planted millions of acres of marginal land that is now subject to erosion exposure.
(Similarly, I recall some years ago being scolded by liberals about the number of song birds that were killed by flying into cell towers at night. But today, not a single liberal expresses concern over the bird deaths caused by wing power turbines.)
Liberals would just be pitiful except for the real damage they do to the ecology, the economy and to liberty.
But wait, I've been assured by FReepers that the small corn crop is a disaster and people can't afford to eat!
And all ethanol plants make drinkable alcohol. Additives make it non-consumable.
I smell a RAT
ADM contributes too much to the coffers to allow this
Here's an article I found just now.
Where there used to be grass, now there are gulleys and mud. Another example of government causing questionable rapid changes based on lack of thought.
We’re one Presidential election away from seeing the mandate ended.