[Paladin2]

Corporate welfare and GOPee graft and corruption.

[tgusa]

Does our gummint mandate that ethanol be blended with gasoline? I for one would gladly pay more for PURE gasoline. I know I could go to a local marina for that, but seems to me there would be a ready market, especially as the price of crude supposedly will dive this spring.

[YankeeReb]

This is a total scam. Ethanol attracts water and lowers gas mileage.

[Gaffer]

Its extreme subsidy and its transport difficulties and energy content delivery aside, ethanol is one of the worst tricks played on the car owner. It destroys seals, gaskets and ruins sensors (O2, in particularly). Since its large scale use, I’ve had two Hondas, a Dodge Ram and an F150 all get the same O2 sensor error that would lead the layman to believe their catalytic convertor was going bad.

I just now have and OBDII CAN reader/controller than can kill the service light. I’d like to take all the politicians who pushed this stuff through and mash their faces in a cow pie.

[bestintxas]

there is no difference between the GOP and the Dems.

What we are seeing with John Boehner and Mitch McConnell is the same we saw with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid: approval of expanding government and support of a runaway POTUS’s desire to take down America.

I will NEVER give to the GOP again.

[BBB333]

Ethanol has to be distilled, requiring heat.

The energy (BTU’s) required to heat the corn to the proper boiling point to distill ethanol is in excess of the energy (BTU’s) stored in the ethanol.

It makes sense to distill corn into moonshine, potatoes into vodka and grain or peat into whiskey as the product gains in value.

Ethanol is distilled for votes.

[Carry_Okie]

Today, according to the USDA, ethanol accounts for roughly 6.6 percent of total transport fuel consumption, but consumes about 40 percent of the U.S. corn supply.

We're using topsoil as fuel, the dumbest environmental policy in American history.

[hadaclueonce]

It is ALL about money! Iowa has hired two lobbyist, one to pay off the Democrats and the other bunch to pay off the Republicans. It is not about right or wrong it is about how much influence one can buy.

[drypowder]

fact; it takes more BTU to produce 1 unit of ethanol from corn than the BTUs contained in that unit of ethanol. the politicians were given this info but mandated that it be produced anyway thus causing the prices of everything associated with corn products to skyrocket and creating a shortage of livestock feed and food for human consumption. The advent of fracking for oil, logically should have killed the government's ethanol mandate.

[Dalberg-Acton]

Thanks Bob Dole, Senator from ADM (Archer Daniels Midland).

[Dartman]

The worst crap one can put into a gas tank.

[McGruff]

If Iowa wasn't first on the campaign trail Ethanol wouldn't be a campaign issue. Pretty disgusting.

[Vaduz]

It’s always about money pick a party.

[McGruff]

“I support the subsidy of ethanol,” Romney told a potential voter after an event here was cut short by a fire alarm. “I believe ethanol is an important part of our energy solution in this country.”

Support for ethanol subsidies has long been considered a political necessity for candidates who want to succeed in the Iowa caucuses, but former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty tested that maxim on Monday during his official campaign announcement here.

Read more: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/05/27/romney_in_iowa_i_support_the_subsidy_of_ethanol_110011.html#ixzz3TXFG9mdJ
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[VideoDoctor]

We have been screaming "One Party" system for quite some time now.

Does anyone think we have two?