Biden will announce emergency waiver on summer ethanol ban to combat rising gas prices

CNN ^ | 12 April 2022 | Donald Judd

[NautiNurse]

Lesko Brandon is threading the needle between short-term pollution concerns and long term damage to the vehicles using 15% ethanol. Interesting times.

[tomkat]

Corn is for cows, not cars.

[z3n]

Corn ethanol requires almost as much hydrocarbon energy for tillage, fertilizer, cultivation, pesticides, harvest, transportation, fermenting, distillation, and transportation as it contains when it arrives at the refinery for blending.

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Bing!

It’s just like saying let’s all drive electric cars. Electricity is magic and appears out of thin air!
Biofuel isn’t going to be cheaper to produce this year. Just the opposite.

[usconservative]

Oil and wheat futures are up more than 3% this morning. Corn futures up more than 1%. Fasten your seatTighten your belt. You're about to get a whole lot skinnier, America.

[ExTxMarine]

So this PROVES the climate change BS isn’t actually a pressing issue, because we would NEVER put ourselves and the future fate of our ENTIRE PLANET in danger simply to save some money, right?!?

[NautiNurse]

Unless the 15% ethanol can shorten the life span of ICE vehicles.

[Paleo Conservative]

When the food inflation/shortage emergency overtakes the gas price emergency, what will be the whack a mole response to get more corn on the market?

Well It's too late to plant more grain for the 2022 season in much of North America. It's not like oil and gas where it's possible to drill wells any time of year, except for Alaska. You have to plant corn so that it is ready to harvest before winter or other weather could destroy the crops. And due to supply chain malfunctions, lots of inputs for agriculture are not available. Even if a farmer could still plant more grain, actually getting the seed, tractor spare parts especially tires, fuel, etc. is problematic.

[Paleo Conservative]

Oil and wheat futures are up more than 3% this morning. Corn futures up more than 1%. Fasten your seatTighten your belt. You're about to get a whole lot skinnier, America.

There could be lots more grass fed beef on the market this year.

[NautiNurse]

There could be lots more grass fed beef on the market this year.

Yummy! Grass fed milk is yummy too.

[stars & stripes forever]

Aren’t we headed for a HUGE famine where corn will be necessary to prevent starvation?

Don't worry. BILL GATES' fake meat and chemical veggies will save the day. /s

[BRL]

So he is making edicts in the zero-sum game he is enforcing. Turn on oil exploration.

[SisterK]

my truck does not run on corn

[NautiNurse]

News release: 8.5% inflation since last March.

[NautiNurse]

Corn-free fuel is best! Very pleased since making the change three years ago.

[bray]

Ethanol produces the same amount of CO2 as gas, why not let the oil industry just pump oil?

[TianaHighrider]

To ensure to tear up all gasoline engines that use it.

[GraceG]

This will cause food prices to rise even further

[2harddrive]

WARNING: No car sold in the US, other than Flex-Fuel vehicles, has been aproved to run on gasoline with 15% ethanol. YOU CAN DAMAGE YOUR ENGINE AND VOID YOUR WARRANTY!

[Elsie]

The sale of E15 gasoline is usually prohibited from June to mid-September because of air quality concerns.

I guess the "Global warming" boogie man has been shoved down the stack.

Now "Gas Prices" is our greatest concern!!

[1Old Pro]

I guess the "Global warming" boogie man has been shoved down the stack. Now "Gas Prices" is our greatest concern!!

Funny how their policies always have the opposite effects of what they intended.