Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 02/22/2011 10:17:07 AM PST by george76
The ethanol industry took a shot on Saturday when the U.S. House of Representatives voted to remove funding for the expansion of ethanol in vehicle fuel.
The House voted 285-136 on a measure that blocks the Environmental Protection Agency from raising the cap on ethanol from 10 percent to 15 percent.
The House also voted 261-185 to remove EPA funding to help pay for the special pumps needed to dispense higher blends of ethanol at gas stations.
The measures are part of the House's much larger budget resolution and must survive budget negotiations with the Senate and get a signature from President Obama before they become law. The Senate is considered more supportive of ethanol in part because farm state representation is stronger there.
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“Iowa has a primary” REALLY and JUST WHEN is the “Iowa Primary”?! We (Iowa)have a CAUCUS!
Man, I'm feeling slighted. How could you miss CA, the squealingest pig at the teet?
“The ethanol industry took a shot”
Good metaphor. Archer Daniels Midland and the rest of these greaseballs have been hooked on govt handouts like some drug addict.
A shot at reality is the right ticket.
Chuckle.
I'll bet you haven't even been on a farm, let alone know a farmer. You wouldn't spout such nonsense if you did.
Try finding a non-ethanol gas station around where you live.
One of my friends drive 30,000 miles per year running the non-ethanol gas. He’s saving $900 per year. That’s counting the increased MPGs running on the non-ethanol gas and also accounting for the more expensive price of non-ethanol gas compared to the 10% mix.
People across this country don’t realize that they are paying about $1,000 more per year with the decreased Miles Per Gallon from 10% ethanol mixed gas.
LOL, actually the Little women has fifty angus cows, she let’s me pet one now and then. But I was up in indiana a while back and was shocked at the number of cattle barns and pins falling down, but every sq inch of land around them was set to plant more corn. It came to me these turkeys are renting their land and collecting their government checks instead of working. And since the republican don’t have the stones to kill the program, I thought a weaning process may work.
LOL, actually the Little women has fifty angus cows, she let’s me pet one now and then. But I was up in indiana a while back and was shocked at the number of cattle barns and pins falling down, but every sq inch of land around them was set to plant more corn. It came to me these turkeys are renting their land and collecting their government checks instead of working. And since the republican don’t have the stones to kill the program, I thought a weaning process may work.
Good. Now vote for drill baby drill.
I found some ethanol-free gas over the weekend. I filled up my 69 Mustang and it runs better than it has in the past two years. Ethanol gasoline blend simply won’t burn right in an old car like mine. I also filled up my lawnmower can and started my mower up for the first time since last fall. It also runs much better.
How about - Republicans Rebuke Effort to Defund Health Care Law | 2/15/2011 | Chad Pergram | http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2673880/posts
There is no provision more onerous to conservatives than the health law. So if the GOP is set to cut spending, why not shave the money set aside to implement the health law, too?
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) planned to do just that, which would in turn cripple all government operations devoted to executing the health law. In other words, if there’s no money, the government can’t carry out the policy.
And that’s when King ran into a buzz saw run by Virginia Foxx and the rest of the Republicans on the House Rules Committee.
Here’s one. ***The Manager’s Amendment*** (SA 4188), offered by Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), to S. 2611, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006. The Manager’s Amendment made many minor changes to S. 2611, none of have significant numeric impacts on the overall bill. However, the Manager’s Amendment included a provision that requires consultation with the government of Mexico concerning the construction of additional fencing and related border security structures along the international border between the United States and Mexico. This would virtually guarantee that the fence along the U.S.-Mexico border would never be completed. The Manager’s Amendment passed by a vote of 56 to 41.
http://profiles.numbersusa.com/improfile.php3?DistSend=CA&VIPID=46
He dang sure did and I lost about $13,000 invested in Farmer’s Coop bonds. That was back when I couldn’t write a check for that much. Best loss I ever took and one of the best investment lessons ever learned.
Investments that won’t make money without a subsidy aren’t investments worth making.
“Who wins this clean energy race,” Mr. Zhao of Sunzone said, “really depends on how much support the government gives.”
Here’s China http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/09/business/global/09trade.html?pagewanted=3&_r=2&th&emc=th And us. The BlueGreen Alliance Foundation organization dedicated to research and education about the job-creating potential of global warming solutions and other environmental investments. BGAF works with the BlueGreen Alliance to achieve its mission. The BlueGreen Alliance is a national partnership of labor unions and environmental organizations dedicated to expanding the number and quality of jobs in the green economy, and includes the United Steelworkers, Sierra Club, Communications Workers of America, Natural Resources Defense Council, Service Employees International Union, Laborers’ International Union of America, Utility Workers Union of America, American Federation of Teachers, Amalgamated Transit Union and the Sheet Metal Workers’ International Association.
Guess who wins?
Any wonder we outsource? Meanwhile, Germany plans to build 27 coal-fired plants by 2020. Italy plans to increase its reliance on coal from 14% today to 33% in just five years. In Europe, 40 new major coal power plants are set to be built.
And Obama admits he wants to bankrupt the coal industry, and that his energy policies will cause consumers’ electricity rates to “skyrocket.”
http://blog.heritage.org/2008/11/03/morning-bell-he-left-the-truth-in-san-francisco/print/
I keep hearing this over and over again but I cannot for the life of me think of a single instance where what you say is true. Give me an example of where Republicans have had the political power to "win" and have backed off from victory? I think this is something that's repeated over an over again so that in the minds of many it's true when it really isn't true. So give me some examples.
Uh, I never said anything like that in this thread (and certainly not in Post #18). But I'll bite anyway - the RINOs in the Senate caved into Bill Clinton and the anti-gun Dems in passing both the Brady Bill and also the "Assault Weapons Ban" in the mid-'90s. There are seemingly ALWAYS 3 or 4 RINO Senators that vote with the Dems and really let some screwball laws get passed.
But, again, I never said any such thing in this thread.
What you obviously don’t know is that the farmers are less and less dependant on “The Cheap Food for Consumers Programs”, most often referred to as “The Farm Subsidies Program”. They are less dependant on the subsidies than they have been in decades.
And the working farmers are liking it. Consumers aren’t particularly happy, but the farmers are, they are finally getting a fair return for their labor, investment, and their risk taking.
We should start using Thorium to power reactors. We only use uranium because we needed to produce weapons-grade U-235 and Plutonium, not because it really made any sense. Thorium is far more abundant, cannot be made into a bomb and produces less radiation. In fact, the Thorium that is in coal actually has more energy than the coal itself - if put through a reactor. As it is, it is merely part of the tailings and viewed as being very harmful waste.
He could but under our constitution, people who don’t want government to do something always have the upper hand over those who do. Obama can’t make them vote for it.
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