President Biden on Tuesday is set to announce that the Environmental Protection Agency will allow E15 gasoline—gasoline that uses a 15% ethanol blend...
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Do the morons know ethanol comes from corn, a food crop, when food is in short supply?
Exhausting food supplies isn’t a bug, it’s a feature.
Another public policy disaster with a sinister intent: get those pesky IC engines off the road.
This has nothing to do with preferring ethanol over oil as an ingredient in our motor fuels. This measure is being taken to avoid the costly and highly disruptive process that refineries must undertake to transition from “winter” to “summer” fuel blends. If you go back over the last 20+ years, you’ll see that there was almost always a steep hike in fuel prices right around early May as this transition took place. This is what they’re trying to prevent with this executive order.
We have a shortage of fertilizer and fertilizer is very costly at the moment. Corn is also used as Carole feed. So this is going to also increase food costs.
People don’t eat yellow dent #2 corn at least not directly it’s used in cattle, and chicken feeds through. The process of wet milling corn and making ethanol with it leaves distillers dried grains as a left over this also is first grade cattle food as cows don’t need the starch from corn in fact it hurts them they do need the proteins which is why DDG is great cattle food. E15 is currently only sold in winter months because it’s Reed vapor pressure in the warm months is too high for EPA approval. E15 is also only sold in marked and dedicated pumps for use in 2001 or newer vehicles only. It is in fact illegal to run SORE engines with it. This EO doesn’t add E15 to the existing E10 fuel pool nor replace E10 with E15 it simply waives the summer sunset of E15 at those dedicated pumps for it. The whole food for fuel is a straw man argument yellow dent is not human grade food and the by products of making hooch is better quality feed for the animals that should be eating it. As usual much to do about nothing. If anything it should add some much needed additional fuel volumes into the supply lines which should lower prices of the market is working and not rigged. It’s easy to avoid E15 by law nation wide it must be dispensed from a blue hose with clear warnings that it is only for flex fuel or 2001 model year or newer vehicles.
Yes, they know, and they don't care ...
You bet they know that they are diverting corn to be burned as a very inefficient fuel away from food production in the face of a looming world wide food shortage. For a totally manufactured reason to shut down oil production since burned ethanol creates more co2 than gasoline when distillation costs are taken into account. The Biden Administration’s actions are reminiscent of the disastrous and counterproductive decisions made during the 1920s and 1930s by the Soviet to collectivize and implement their ill considered policies. Their politically correct solutions to every one of their self inflicted disasters created a new disaster in it’s own right while at the same time making the original problem worse, not better. In this case, not only are Biden morons (or evil bastards if intentional) driving the potential for food shortages, but the artificial scarcity of corn is going to drive inflation across the board - for fuel costs and for food costs and food availability. The Biden crew also shares another trait with the Soviet Bolsheviks - a penchant for blaming their political opposition and persecuting them for the problems the Bolsheviks manufactured all by themselves. Team Biden has already brought the terrors of the 1980s Cold War back , now they are working on reinventing the Soviet tragedy of the 1920s and 30s here in America
Of course they know it will cause food shortages.
You can’t get social changes without social destruction.
They want to destroy the world and recreate it in their image.
A corn crop which uses untold amounts of fossil fuels to produce. At best, you get out 1.1 gallons for every gallon you put in. Lots of studies show you get out 0.9 gallons for every gallon you put in.
The sheer idiocy of Biden & Co. is breathtaking to behold.
And by extension, how many government edicts are they admitting are failures? EPA has to provide exception - means higher pollution now ok?
All part of the over all plan to bring the population into servatude to the elite government.
Corn price are going up his idea ends up in the futile file.
Of course they do. But they obviously don't care.
E15 gas should NOT be used in small engines like lawnmowers, etc.
It will be interesting to watch how the station owners handle this. Unfortunately they will prolly convert the 10% ethanol pumps to use this 15% ethanol poison. And if your vehicle cannot run efficiently on E15 gas, too bad.
Bidens handlers would be much better off restarting the XL pipeline.