What is the point of Ethenol?
By ParaTed2k
@ParaTed2k (22940)
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
February 12, 2008 11:34am CST
As we speak, several state legislatures are considering requiring all the gasoline sold in their state to contain a certain amount of ethonol.
Here in Wisconson the magic number seems to be 25%.
What are those dope smoking fools thinking?
Ethonol has already caused an increase in the price of corn and corn based foods. Corn is our major cash crop in the U.S., so what is the point of using it for fuel instead of food?
Ethonol takes more oil to create than it saves, so what's the point?
Gasoline with Ethonol gets significantly lower miles per gallon, hence more gasoline is used, so what's the point?
Ethonol creates more emissions from engines, because it doesn't burn as clean as gasoline, so what's the point?
What is the point of this wasteful, polution creating crap that is being forced upon us by law?
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@muppetsnap (229)
• Canada
16 Feb 08
Because of the venal US political system, with its legalised bribery. Ethanol is a non-starter, but the farming lobby is too powerful, so - bang - another use for corn. If it could stand up in the market it would, but it can't.
So we all pay, rather than letting the market do its job and kill off the Ethanol experiment.
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
16 Feb 08
But it can be fought, unless we are all too lazy to do so.
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@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
18 Feb 08
Keep making excuses for your laziness.
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@muppetsnap (229)
• Canada
18 Feb 08
No - not at the moment it can't. Because 'our' representatives do what they are told by their lobbyist paymasters. Until there is radical and far-reaching finance reform, then nothing is going to change. The current president presides over a plutocracy and doesn't even try and hide it. And even if the next one tries to be different, congress et al are all still (with some few exceptions) noses deep in the trough - because if they won't take the bribes, sorry 'campaign donations' then someone else will, and they'll lose.
It's sickening. But why would the turkeys vote to make it Christmas all year?
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@cifirretsbol (160)
• United States
12 Feb 08
this is all just more proof of the power influence of the corn lobby in our country. between this and high fructose corn syrup in just about every processed food, corn is infiltrating every aspect of our lives. there is absolutely no point to it except to make the corn growers more money.
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@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
12 Feb 08
Exactly!
The difference is, no law forced processed food companies to use High Fructose Corn Syrup, and none of us are forced, by law, to buy products containing it.
The state legislatures want to appease the corn lobby by taking away our freedom to choose.
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@gardengrrl (1445)
• United States
18 Feb 08
I think it's so all the corporate farms can switch to growing corn for fuel. This way, they can make even more moolah than they can from government farming subsidies. That's the only benefit I can see. As alternative energy goes, ethanol is a joke.
Of course, I'm just a tad cynical... lol!
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@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
18 Feb 08
There is already plenty of market for both Sweet and Field Corn. It's more than just creating a market for it.
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