Paul Driessen, a guest columnist on Watts Up With That? outlines numerous reasons why the EPA’s push for E-15 Ethanol gasoline is bad for our pocketbooks, the environment and energy policy.
Driessen, a senior policy advisor with the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, points out that E-15 will be a disaster for those with cars older than 2001. Ethanol collects water, which can cause cars to stall. It also corrodes plastic, rubber and soft metal parts. E-15 will increase emissions, adversely affect engine, fuel pump and sensor durability.
E-15 burns hotter than regular gasoline. Used in home yard care equipment, it could inadvertently start fires and burn users.
Driessen also notes:
Ethanol mandates mean more revenues and profits for corn growers and ethanol makers. However, skyrocketing corn prices mean beef, pork, poultry, egg and fish producers pay more for corn-based feed; grocery manufacturers pay more for corn, meat, fish and corn syrup; and families see prices soar for almost everything on their dinner table.
Ah, but there’s more bad news about Ethanol production:
Right now, we are burning our own – and the world’s – food, to fuel cars and trucks. And to grow corn, convert it into 14 billion gallons of ethanol, and ship it by truck or train, we are consuming one-third of America’s entire corn crop – and using millions of pounds of insecticides, billions of pounds of fertilizer, vast amounts of energy (all petroleum-based), and trillions of gallons of water.
Just imagine how those numbers will soar, if E15 is adopted nationwide – or if Big Ethanol’s big dream becomes reality, and motorists begin to burn “cheap” corn-based E85 in flex-fuel vehicles.
Read more on this latest EPA-created debacle-in-the-making at Watts Up With That?
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The lawsuits would be against the manufactures and retailers; not against the idiots that write the legislation. That is where it needs to be directed.
We all know that fuel for our vehicles is much more important than eating , and that the government has to find more and more ways to waste taxpayers money , and that Obamass destruction of the American economy takes precedence over common sense . RON PAUL FOR PRESIDENT !!!
Ethanol is the biggest fraud ever perpetuated on the the American people. Corn should be eaten, not added to gasoline. What is a real shame is that those who can least afford it are the ones hurt the most….every time they go to the grocery store….and yet they continue to vote for the democratic idiots who are ruining our lives and our economy. The EPA needs to go….period. And that should be the first thing on the agenda next January, if we can wake enough people up in this country to defeat the idiot in the White House and his complicit buddies in the federal regulatory agencies.
Bingo! You nailed it. Make people more dependent on government hand-outs and then promise them even better benefits if the vote for the anointed one in 2012. Am I the only one who recognizes that the amount of water that comes out of the hose is directly proportionate to the amount of water that goes into it? Give people free money and they quit work. When they quit work, they cease paying taxes. Simple math says more money goes out but less money comes in. We are very close to the break-even point where there is more going out than there is coming in. And that is exactly what Obama wants! America has really become a stupid nation!
ethanol cost too much to make and it cuts down our gas milage and raises evap emissions. that is a fact
Ethanol is just a symptom of radicals who want to put America in the ground… As are so many other things taking place at this time, like bankrupting this country and forcing more people into poverty as to make them become dependent upon the government…
NOBAMA or any of these radicals across America ever…
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It seems to me all congress is in withEPA on using SHORT CORN CROP TH MAKE Ethanol?????????????????? everyone suffers ?????????????? WAKE UP.
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