Declare ethanol a failure

Scripps Howard News Service ^ | Dec. 14, 2010 | Dale McFeatters

[anglian]

Posted at The Oil Drum November 29, 2007 - “The National Academy of Sciences has published a report titled “Water Implications of Biofuel Production in the United States”. The paper outlines impacts and limitations on both water availability and water quality that would follow the pursuit of a national strategy to replace liquid fossil fuels with those made from biomass.” COMMITTEE ON WATER IMPLICATIONS OF BIOFUELS PRODUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3285

[george76]

Thank you

[epow]

Thank the ethanol producers for your $3.50 loaf of bread, $5 gallon of milk, and practically every other commercially produced food product that contains flour and/or corn sugar or is derived from domestic farm animals. Very few prepared food or drink products are free of corn derivatives, and even some plastics are partially composed of chemicals derived from corn. The price of meat and poultry products are also greatly influenced by corn prices since corn is one of the basic ingredients in commercial animal feed.

Add the dollars your government uses to subsidize the unprofitable ethanol industry and you have a huge pile of taxpayer $ being misspent primarily to keep the Gorons and other Greenies happy and voting for "progressives".

[george76]

Even Al Gore recently said that ethanol was a mistake.

[epow]

The water claimed to be used by ethanol is commonly known as "rain"....

True enough, but "rain" water is essential to agriculture and often in short supply in many parts of our corn farming areas. As I'm sure you know, the aquifers that underlie many large swaths of prime US agricultural regions are in serious danger of depletion, so "rain" water isn't anything to be wasted by supplying an inefficient, taxpayer subsidized industry such as ethanol production. Affordable food and fiber are far more important products than subsidized gas-ahol that only a relative handful of far-left Green fanatics want to force on the rest of us.

[RipSawyer]

“The water claimed to be used by ethanol is commonly known as “rain””
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Look at South Carolina on the map, notice the lakes, rivers and swamps, read the annual rainfall figures. Corn growers, even here, use a lot of irrigation pumps. One old gent that I see in church on Sundays has run a big farming operation in Darlington county for almost his entire adult life. He tells me there is little point in planting corn, even sweet corn in the garden unless you are prepared to water it. The annual rainfall may be plenty for corn but there is usually a dry spell that lasts for several weeks right at the time the corn needs it most and should be getting two or more inches of water a WEEK for maximum production. As school children we used to recite, “April showers bring May flowers”, nowadays the month of April is often bone dry here. It is not unusual to have very little rainfall from early April until late May or even longer. This is when corn needs a lot of water.

[1010RD]

Excellent.

[epow]

Even Al Gore recently said that ethanol was a mistake.

Yep, as my old grandpa used to say, even a blind hog finds an acorn now and then, and Algore appears to have found one.

Speaking of hogs, I can't think of a blinder 2-legged hog than Algore. Even his recently expanded waistline and drooping jowls remind me of a fat-jowled brood sow slurping up Grandma's kitchen slop and dishwater back on the old farm.

[thulldud]

In most places this is called a kickback. Sometimes it's called money laundering. But in Congress it's business as usual.

Spiro T. Agnew was run out of office for one instance of that.

[Vaduz]

You can never trust a hack we can only keep voting them out of office,waiting for 2012.

[screaminsunshine]

At the marina it is extra.

[kennyboy509]

cry uncle dammit!

U R Wrong