Posted on 04/12/2022 3:00:29 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Washington CNN — President Joe Biden on Tuesday will announce new steps his administration is taking to address rising gasoline prices across the country, including emergency measures to expand biofuel sales...
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The President is slated to announce that the Environmental Protection Agency will issue an emergency waiver permitting year-round sales of E15 gasoline, which contains a 15% ethanol blend, on a trip to Menlo, Iowa, where he’ll visit POET Bioprocessing, a biofuels plant that specializes in the creation of bioethanol.
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The sale of E15 gasoline is usually prohibited from June to mid-September because of air quality concerns. Under former President Donald Trump, the EPA issued an order allowing permanent year-round sales of the biofuel blend in 2019, but the order was overturned last year by the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit.
Biden’s announcement, a senior administration official said, “is distinct from” his predecessor’s efforts to expand ethanol sales in that it’s “based on the current circumstance, which is a fuel supply emergency.”
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FJB
“Joe’s constituency will not try to push foreign aid and famine relief assistance to other countries.”
Unfortunately, they will.
Western governments will put FURTHER purchase pressure on depleted worldwide stocks, driving prices even higher. This to fight famine in the 3rd world.
Virtue signalling do-gooders.
Ultimately it is the Western world that will pay the worldwide price increases. The western consumer.
We will have to consume far less for there to be enough to go around. Meat, eggs and dairy will be unreachable by most folks soon.
Get used to beans and biscuits. Good food, no doubt.
At first glance I thought it was eliminate biden now.
It depends on the grass and soil conditions where the grass is grown.
I have never heard of a successful civilization that burned its food for fuel.
And on top of all the food issues.... THIS is the move? Why, if I didn’t know any better, I’d start to believe all these Machevellian, America-destroying initiatives are on purpose.
Meanwhile, all of the googly-eyed liberals are completely enchanted by the shiny-object Ukraine situation complete with non-stop press coverage. The moonstruck masses don't see the rug being yanked out from under their feet with the great big, deep hole in the floor.
Well, we need to wait till after the midterms and Republicans take the House. Then, we get rid of both Biden and Kamala so the new Republican Speaker of the House will be installed as POTUS.
Great. Let’s burn more food.
Our government is run by fools and lunatics.
Most engines are not designed for it.
Mileage drops way down meaning you use more fuel.
Farmers use more fuel to produce the corn.
Energy required to convert corn to ethanol.
Less food for people and livestock.
What could go wrong?
And I forgot. Stored ethanol fuel does not last. It goes putrid, collects moisture and damages engines and fuel systems. Not to mention that bad fuel has to be disposed of.
these people are insane ... gonna burn up more food instead of pumping more fossil fuels... food essentially produced from fossil fuels to start with ... food prices gonna soar even more ...
Absolutely. Corn gasoline gums up the engine.
Make Cornflakes NOT corn-gas.
Always have been
Always will be
Oh goodie. That should help with the skyrocketing cost of food.
sounds right.
But why track cars when you can track phones?
2little2late. Stick a fork in Foe Brandon (not a threat, an idiomatic metaphor). He’s done.
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