Renewable Fuels?

Anybody ever seen a corn stalk come back from the used?

I think we can all agree that the Renewable Fuel Standard has “been a flop.”

“There’s not been an environment benefit; there’s actually been an environmental detriment and there’s been an economic detriment to many sectors of the economy, even though there’s been a significant benefit to the Corn Belt.”

Energy is not renewable … Just liberal wordplay for ignorant people.

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.

Consumer Choice Consumes Big Ethanol , As Big Farmers Leave The Consumer on the Shore …

As now we find they have discovered Obama’s teet — Free money for all you who go along with what I want: All Of A Sudden Big Ethanol Doesn’t Care About Consumer Choice

E-15 drops the energy available in gasoline by about 20%, as now you will pay more for less real energy. Which essentially drops your gas mileage the same amount, if it doesn’t destroy the engines of older cars in the bargain. You have already lost about 12-15% of your cars mileage potential with the e-10 crap fuel. Hope you are not on a tight budget. If so, it’s about to get tighter for you.

And what it does to the available total corn crop for food, we won’t say.

Buy electric golf carts and get killed in the bargain. I hear they still aren’t selling.

That’s a sort of crony capitalism, and it ought not exist in American markets.

 

Hey I Got An Idea Lets Burn More Corn

Does’t the EPA know that various studies has told them burning corn generates 2.5X the CO2 as just using gasoline?

Do they care or is a worldwide food shortage their goal?

Supreme Court allows EPA to wreck car engines with E15 ethanol

Dow Jones reports:

-The Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider legal challenges by several industry trade groups to an Environmental Protection Agency move to expand ethanol use in the U.S.

Trade groups for food producers, the oil and gas sector and the auto industry all sued to contest a pair of EPA decisions that allowed the sale of gasoline blends containing 15% ethanol. The agency regulates fuels based on the pollution they create.

Currently, most of the U.S. gasoline supply contains 10% of the renewable fuel.

The EPA’s move handed a partial victory to ethanol manufacturers, which had pushed the agency to allow the higher blends. The agency allowed the so-called E15 fuel for use in vehicles dating back to the 2001 model year, but not for older cars and trucks.

The various trade groups alleged they would suffer a variety of harms from the increased ethanol use.

For example, members of the food industry argued it would cost more to make and distribute food products because the introduction of E15 fuel would increase demand–and prices–for corn, which is used to make most ethanol.

The auto industry alleged the new fuel could damage vehicle engines, prompting consumers to bring warranty and safety claims against car makers. Petroleum refiners and importers said the introduction of E15 would force them to incur substantial costs.

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Who cares if your fuel costs more, we are saving the planet from the global warming hoax.

Do you know what burning corn does to fuel prices, much less worldwide corn markets? Is winning all we care about these days, what happened to right and wrong.

It’s time to argue the environmental impact of E15. These would include the amount of marginal land put into corn production, the user of larger amounts of fertilizer, pumping more water than can be replenished from aquifers, the effluent loading of rivers and tributaries, the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Perhaps its time to sleep with the enemy so to speak and work with an environmental group to stop this nonsense. And the fuel costs for more harvesting.

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.

Corn, Going, Going, Going …

When governments get the big idea that food is endless and market constraints don’t matter.

It’s like the anti-Colonialist saying it’s fine for the West to suffer, they stole it all in the first place. Time to pay back for your sins ….

The worst drought in 50 years has destroyed one-sixth of the U.S. corn crop. The USDA’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WSDE) report, released Friday, projects the smallest corn crop in six years and the lowest corn yields per acre since 1995.

As acreage, production, and yields declined, corn prices spiked. Last week, corn futures hit a record high of $8.29-3/4 per bushel.

And so what are we doing in the USA? The EPA is trying to force refiners to blend E15, instead of E10. Why no one knows.

So using hooch for fuel is good? Why???

Tell me what is the end, using ethanol for fuel. Level headed people discarded ethanol like 100 years ago as too costly. Somebody bend the cost curve over somebody’s head at the EPA.

It’s like the people at the EPA don’t know about drilling for USA oil. Weird.

Hey it would;d be cheaper. Oh so that’s the problem, we want expensive fuel to keep Americans at home, right. So we will blend it for you …

Food vs Fuel, How Dumb Can We Get, We may Just Find Out In 2012

Hey it worked with the liberals DDT lies, and the malaria the mosquitoes cause African children, so why not burn Corn?

Did you see the study that has shown using sugar cane ethanol produces 10 times the CO2 emissions as using gasoline from oil does?

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

More Corn, Your Car Wants More Corn

Ethanol typically sells for less per gallon than gasoline, but “engines do not run on gallons, they run on energy,” and a gallon of ethanol has only 67% of the net energy in a gallon of gasoline. It’s physics really, nothing too complicated for the average politicians. But politicians love to push the corn around, as if they know what they are doing. Actually I think it’s the money that is the source of politicians cronyism …

Every motor head knows that ethanol works in engines, but it’s flaw is it attracts water. Water is not a lubricant, does damage to car engines(rust, corrosion) made of materials man can find and make in large quantities.

Early in the history of the internal combustion engines, all kinds, the search for a suitable fuel was on. They tried corn ethanol, for regular spark plug engines, worked fine, produced less power. They tried peanut oil for diesels, bio-diesel, worked fine. These recent discoveries are at least a 100 years old. BTW, fracking is at least 60 years old, and flaming water wells are nothing new to people who live where the ground is loaded with natural gas.

But then along came oil. refining and oil. It had lubricity as well.  Fuel and oil, in the same barrel. Good stuff, cheap, so why not.

For everyone except liberals. They hated the nasty oil stuff, the taste of freedom one gets from driving where they wanted, when they wanted. That was the real source of liberals hate, freedom.

Today, FarmEcon LLC released RFS, Fuel and Food Prices, and the Need for Statutory Flexibility, a study of ethanol’s impact on food and fuel prices. FarmEcon prepared the study for the American Meat Institute, California Dairies Inc., Milk Producers Council, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, National Chicken Council, National Pork Producers Council, and National Turkey Federation.

The study argues that the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), commonly known as the ethanol mandate, is detrimental to both non-ethanol industry corn users and food and fuel consumers. The program should therefore be reformed. The RFS has “destabilized corn and ethanol prices by offering an almost risk-free demand volume guaranty to the corn-based ethanol industry.” Consequently, food producers who use corn as a feedstock “have been forced to bear a disproportionate share of market and price risk” when corn yields fall and prices rise. This has become painfully obvious in recent weeks as drought conditions in the Midwest depress yields and push corn prices to record highs.

OK, a little physics are in order. Fuels are not renewable. Once you burn the tree all that is left is ashes. No matter how many ceremonial liberal dances that are preformed, the fuel does not renew, the tree does not grow again. You can plant new trees and they will grow, but the one you burnt remains kaput. So ‘renewable fuel’ is a liberal oxymoron that does not hunt. And no, electricity for your battery car is not renewable either. Yikes, don’t get any on your Birkenstocks.

Liberals love to make up words for things they want to be, but aren’t.

As Reagan once said of liberals: “”Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”

Or they change word meanings to suit. That’s the advantage of controlling the language.

Why Not Burn Food For Fuel: House Panel Blocks Sales Of E15 Blended Gas – Questions Use Of Food Crops For Fuel Production

A House panel approved a bill Tuesday that would block the Environmental Protection Agency from allowing the use of a higher blend of ethanol for use in vehicles without further study.

The Science Committee approved the bill, sponsored by Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wisconsin, on a 19-7 party line vote.

Automakers and other engine makers have clashed with corn growers since 2010 over whether the United States should allow the use of a new blend of ethanol called E15 because it is 15 percent biofuel — usually made from corn.