[Kaslin]

It's way past time to stop listening to these Environmentalists

[cripplecreek]

I had to drive to the other side of the county to buy ethanol free gasoline for my new mower. It comes with a warning that I shouldn’t burn anything above E10 and that’s just about all I can get around here.

[LucianOfSamasota]

Most Marines I know are fond of ethanol...

[cicero2k]

Because some environmental harm is more equal than other environmental harm.

Animal Farm writ large.

[Trityn]

Land for crops to get Ethanol is one of the leading causes of the destruction of the rainforests in the Amazon. (Cattle feed land is first, ethanol is second.) The environazis have been at fault all along.

"The cerrado, wooded grassland in Brazil that once covered an area half the size of Europe, is fast being transformed into croplands to meet rising demand for soybeans, sugarcane, and cattle. The cerrado is now disappearing more than twice as the rate as the neighboring Amazon rainforest, according to a Brazilian expert on the savanna ecosystem." - http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0821-cerrado.html

"U.S. incentives for biofuel production are promoting deforestation in southeast Asia and the Amazon by driving up crop prices and displacing energy feedstock production, say researchers." - http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0117-biofuels.html

Also The Great Ethanol Scam - By Ed Wallace May 14, 2009