Posted on 01/17/2018 2:17:34 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie
This year, trucks and other heavy-duty motors in America will burn some 3 billion gallons of diesel fuel that was made from soybean oil. They're doing it, though, not because it's cheaper or better, but because they're required to, by law.
The law is the Renewable Fuel Standard, or RFS. For some, especially Midwestern farmers, it's the key to creating clean energy from American soil and sun. For others — like many economists — it's a wasteful misuse of resources.
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Your “food” eats oats too. And feed corn. And hay. And probably sorghum and molasses too. Are farmers allowed to use those feedstocks for anything other than livestock feed?
And no need for the scare quotes around the word food. I eat cows, and chickens, and pigs, and turkeys. If you don't, that's your problem.
Soy beans into diesel fuel and corn into ethanol both need to be banned.
Food should be consumed by animals and man, not burned.
I don’t hate tofu, but I don’t see that as a particularly bad downside.
I get SO tired of hearing this plain wrong notion. Bio-fuels from food crops do NOT reduce the available food supply, they increase it.
Whether it be corn or soybeans, the demand generated for biofuel results in additional crop acreage being planted and harvested over and above that for normal food usage.
Only a part of the whole bean or corn kernel is converted to fuel, the rest is perfectly consumable AS FOOD, either by humans or by livestock.
What are you claiming is the impact on your eating habits of the federal biodiesel mandate?
“Turning food into motor fuel borders on the sinful”
AND...STUPID....corn/ethanol// etc
Have these same nitwits figured out the cost of REWIRING America if even 20% of us ‘turned’ to FULL electric cars..
The present infrastructure re electricity CANNOT carry the load !
If the biodiesel industry can't survive the free market, then let it die. I'm okay with that.
... or soy sauce.
I am for farmers having the opportunity to make their crops into anything they want.
I am also against any mandate that makes someone buy something someone makes.
We are in agreement.
TOFU shrinks your brain. Really. Univ. of Hawaii study
These are good and reasonable reasons to oppose "some" biofuels, but to argue that the result is "burning food" is flatly wrong.
>>>>>> Do you eat soybeans?
My food eats soybeans. <<<<<<<<
Same for me, if my food starves, I’ll get real hungry, and when I am hungry I get real testy...
“For some, especially Midwestern farmers, it’s the key to creating clean energy from American soil and sun milking the US Treasury under cover of yet another lunatic eco-fascist scam.”
My family owns a fair amount of this wonderful ground. I stand to lose some income if the bio fuel scam ceases and would gladly do so to get back to the job of feeding the world that we used to be so proud of.
How many soybean farmers use bio diesel in their farm machinery? My bet next to none as bio diesel has a tendency to get during cold weather typical during harvest season.
The consequence is storing pure gasoline in your garage to dilute away that alcohol junk poluting gasoline.
When Cruz began subsidies to stuff like this was an issue. As he continued it dropped out of sight. But if he continued and made it an issue he could have won states like Illinois and Wisconsin .
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