Global Warming Hoax Is Costing You

If you examine the total cost of production in tonnes of CO2 produced, ethanol comes out as the biggest loser out there, So why are we doing it?

And things you probably don’t know it…::: EU Ethanol Fuels Boondoggle Raising Global Food Prices.

“Getting rid of biofuel programs would cut Europe’s food costs in half by 2020, and lower global food prices by 15 percent.”

Hey it’s not just me, now the …::: UN has joined Biofuels ‘crime against humanity’:

A United Nations expert has condemned the growing use of crops to produce biofuels as a replacement for petrol as a crime against humanity.

Chatham House On Biofuels

A quick calculation shows that it bio-fuels produces about 2.5x the CO2 of just burning gasoline. Where do you think the plants and harvesters come from and how are they built and powered? Natural gas is the best fossil fuel, lowest CO2 produced, and it basically needs no refining. In the context bio-fuels means corn ethanol.

A new report from the Royal Institute of International Affairs has found that biofuels are pretty much a disaster. Author Rob Bailey declares that they are not sustainable, they are hugely expensive, they are not a cost-efficient way of reducing emissions, and that the EU is going to insist that production is ramped up anyway.

Since the biofuels mandate comes from the EU Commission (which was subverted by the farm lobby), it is, of course, impossible for national governments to do much about this appalling situation. Roger Harrabin tweets that governments will not want to do anything about biofuels anyway because they fear that if they do business will not support future government initiatives.

One wants to weep at the corruption of it all.

Chatham House, also known as the Royal Institute of International Affairs, is a non-profit, non-governmental organization based in London whose mission is to analyse and promote the understanding of major international issues and current affairs.

 

LAST CALL FOR ETHANOL? Big Corn Hurt Most, As Crony Capitalism Takes The Hit

Doesn’t everybody know burning corn produces more CO2 than just burning gasoline? Do you think corn grows from magic beans?

Is The End In Sight For America’s Biofuel Boondoggle?

Did we just hear the death knell for corn ethanol? Congress may finally be coming to its senses about one of the biggest green policy failures in America, as two bills were introduced yesterday to fix the corn ethanol mandate. . . .

To this point, US farmers have been diverting more and more of their corn crops towards ethanol refineries to satisfy EPA mandates stemming from the 2007 Renewable Fuels Standard. In 2006, before that standard went into place, just 23 percent of America’s corn crop went towards producing ethanol. That number rose to 43 percent last year.

Corn ethanol fails every test a biofuel could hope to pass. It doesn’t lower emissions; it raises them. It also raises the global price of corn, starving the world’s poor and possibly inciting riots. But EPA mandates are propping up this boondoggle. Producers are scrambling to snatch up biofuel credits to meet the federally-mandated quota this year because neither supply nor demand will be sufficient to produce the more than 13 billion barrels of ethanol required.

The bills working their way through Congress will also addresses the ill-conceived mandate for corn ethanol’s big brother: cellulosic ethanol. Cellulosic ethanol is considered an “advanced” biofuel, and it actually passes most of the tests that corn ethanol fails so miserably. But cellulosic ethanol still isn’t ready for mass production: there has been virtually no commercial production of the fuel, despite EPA quotas requiring nearly 20 million gallons since 2010.

The federal government’s ability to force green technologies into the marketplace has failed pretty much everywhere.

Judge Rules EPA Can’t Mandate Use Of Nonexistent Biofuels

Just when the USA has oil coming out of everywhere, due in part to fracking and horizontal drilling technology on PRIVATE LANDS in North Dakota. And you don’t even want to know what natural gas we have found….

The EPA wants to mandate we use a new non-existant fuel for our cars, because Obama says so … How neat is it to be dictator of the USA. Look another executive order, and poof he can do anything he wants, with us.

Yes it’s just the start … A judge ruled, remember in the case of Gulf drilling ban???

The Biofuels Disaster

The USA is wasting 40% of the corn crop on the insanely stupid biofuels program. Pork barrel politics at it’s worst.

A United Nations expert has condemned the growing use of crops to produce biofuels as a replacement for petrol as a crime against humanity. The UN special rapporteur on the right to food, Jean Ziegler, said he feared biofuels would bring more hunger. The growth in the production of biofuels has helped to push the price of some crops to record levels. It was, he said, a crime against humanity to divert arable land to the production of crops which are then burned for fuel.—Grant Ferrett, BBC News, 27 October 2007

The world is running short of corn. That is the message being delivered by the market, where on Thursday prices pushed above $8 a bushel for the first time. With no obvious abundance of international suppliers to make up for the drought-ravaged US corn crop and stocks close to record lows, traders and analysts believe demand must be pegged back.The biggest potential for a reduction in corn demand comes from the ethanol industry, which is using roughly 5bn bushels of corn, or nearly 40 per cent of the US corn crop, each year to make fuel for cars and animal feed.—Financial Times, 19 July 2012 [Registration Required]

You would have thought that after the UN referred to biofuels as a “crime against humanity” there might have been at least a pause for thought. It seems, however, that pork barrel politics can win out over pretty much anything and the headlong rush to reduce the supply of food and to increase the supply of ethanol continues unabated. I’m sure that people who can no longer afford a loaf of bread will be much reassured by the fact that the UK government is discussing flexing their biofuels mandates. –Andrew Montford, Bishop Hill, 20 July 2012

The combination of scorching temperatures and a lack of rain has now pushed corn and soybean prices above the peaks they reached during the 2007-08 food crisis. Overnight, the corn futures price climbed above $US8 a bushel for the first time, while that of soybeans hit a record $US17.12 a bushel. Already, some analysts are warning that the world could be in for a period of intense social and political instability similar to that seen in 2007-08 when soaring food prices sparked riots in dozens of countries. They note that last year’s political instability in the Arab world was partly caused by surging grain prices. The effect of rising grain prices is most pronounced in poor countries, where people can spend up to three-quarters of their income on food.—Karen Maley, Business Spectator, 20 July 2012

Politicians Causing Another Food Crisis, Prices Going Up

We’re burning food at altar of all hoaxes, why we don’t seem to know. Al Gore’s warm swaddling blanket or CO2, a necessary initial condition for all the climate models computer programs is still missing.

BTW, does anybody know how computer models for climate modelling work? It’s a scientific principle known as GIGO. And abbreviation is for Garbage in Garbage out. It’s how you get computer models to produce results politicians want, not based on fact. By picking initial conditions out of your anus.

The initial conditions, like the CO2 blanket will form around earth’s equator. is the basis for all the phony computer models you can eat. And yes, they are all wrong. Has anyone ever thought to test their hypothesis, by rerunning the past?

Silly me …

And by golly the CO2 blanket will be there, rather we can measure it with weather balloons or not. We say it will be there, so there!!!!!! And everybody knows, Obama is always right.

Yep, the world is going to melt, and we have the computer models to prove it.

It’s raining in Jolly old England … The drought in America has had predictable downer on expectations of this year’s harvest.

OK, into the scare, it’s what community organizers do to you — There is certainly a sense of panic in this FT’s report:

The world is facing a new food crisis as the worst US drought in more than 50 years pushes agricultural commodity prices to record highs.

Corn and soyabean prices surged to record highs on Thursday, surpassing the peaks of the 2007-08 crisis that sparked food riots in more than 30 countries. Wheat prices are not yet at record levels but have rallied more than 50 per cent in five weeks, exceeding prices reached in the wake of Russia’s 2010 export ban.

However, this is only half the story. Vast quantities of corn in the US have must be converted to biofuels by law. Yep by law, we call it the ethanol subsidy, in America we must take our food down to the ethanol supplier so he can feed it to the cars. As silly as that sounds, it’s true.

[T]he biggest potential for a reduction in corn demand comes from the ethanol industry, which is using roughly 5bn bushels of corn, or nearly 40 per cent of the US corn crop, each year to make fuel for cars and animal feed.

In essence, the demands of politicians and farmers have, once again, turned a food problem into a food crisis.

5Bn bushels of corn, sacrificed to the leftist hoax’s cronies. Why would anyone do that? Wouldn’t drilling be better, then we can have our corn to eat? Don’t try and teach common sense to the nonsensical politicians.

You would have thought that after the UN referred to biofuels as a “crime against humanity” there might have been at least a pause for thought.My guess is the world will never miss those that starve, for the UN’s  common good.

Pop, Clunk, Clank, Flop, Flop, Flop

Congress ends corn ethanol subsidy

Interesting timing, especially when some biomass companies are switching from wood chips to corn, because they couldn’t turn a profit on wood chips. Looks like all the wheels are coming off the bus now.

Gevo, a prominent advanced-biofuels company that has received millions in U.S. government funding to develop fuels made from cellulosic sources such as grass and wood chips, is finding that it can’t use these materials if it hopes to survive. Instead, it’s going to use corn, a common source for conventional biofuels. What’s more, most of the product from its first facility will be used for chemicals rather than fuel.

As the difficulty of producing cellulosic biofuels cheaply becomes apparent, a growing number of advanced-biofuels companies are finding it necessary to take creative approaches to their business, even though that means abandoning some of their green credentials, at least temporarily, and focusing on markets that won’t have a major impact on oil imports. This is hardly the outcome the government hoped for when it announced cellulosic-biofuels mandates, R&D funding, and other incentives in recent years.

The Cellulosic Ethanol Debacle

‘We’ll fund additional research in cutting-edge methods of producing ethanol, not just from corn but from wood chips and stalks or switch grass. Our goal is to make this new kind of ethanol practical and competitive within six years.”

—George W. Bush, 2006 State of the Union address

The WSJ reports:

Years before the Obama Administration dumped $70 billion into solar and wind energy and battery operated cars, and long before anyone heard of Solyndra, President Bush launched his own version of a green energy revolution. The future he saw was biofuels. In addition to showering billions of dollars on corn ethanol, Mr. Bush assured the nation that by 2012 cars and trucks could be powered by cellulosic fuels from switch grass and other plant life.

To launch this wonder-fuel industry, the feds under Mr. Bush and President Obama have pumped at least $1.5 billion of grants and loan subsidies to fledgling producers. Mr. Bush signed an energy bill in 2007 that established a tax credit of $1.01 per gallon produced.

Most important, the Nancy Pelosi Congress passed and Mr. Bush signed a law imposing mandates on oil companies to blend cellulosic fuel into conventional gasoline. This guaranteed producers a market. In 2010 the mandate was 100 million barrels, rising to 250 million in 2011 and 500 million in 2012. By the end of this decade the requirements leap to 10.5 billion gallons a year.

When these mandates were established, no companies produced commercially viable cellulosic fuel. But the dream was: If you mandate and subsidize it, someone will build it.

 Guess what? Nobody has. Despite the taxpayer enticements, this year cellulosic fuel production won’t be 250 million or even 25 million gallons. Last year the Environmental Protection Agency, which has the authority to revise the mandates, quietly reduced the 2011 requirement by 243.4 million gallons to a mere 6.6 million. Some critics suggest that even much of that 6.6 million isn’t true cellulosic fuel.

The EPA has already announced that the 2012 mandate of 500 million gallons is unattainable, so it is again expected to lower the mandate to fewer than 12 million gallons for next year.

One reason the mandates can’t be met is the half-dozen or so companies that received the first round of subsidies to produce cellulosic fuel never got off the ground. Some 70 million gallons, or 70% of the cellulosic supply to meet the 2010 mandate, was supposed to come from Alabama-based Cello Energy. Incredibly, those projections were made before Cello had built its plant to produce the fuel and before the technology was proven to work.

In 2009 a jury in a civil fraud case ruled that Cello had lied about how much cellulosic fuel it could produce. Some of the fuel that Cello showed to investors was derived from petroleum, not plants. The firm produced little biofuel and in October 2010 it declared bankruptcy.