Raysmom's Blog

thank you. very good information. its simply thrilling to know where george soros stands in all this! perhaps move on dot org has an ethanol ad on their home page...hummmm!

do you have an ethanol store in your town and do you use its product?

i have never even seen an ethanol store....yes they are hypocrites in every nook and cranny of their little lives.

we will see if they treat this huge new industry as they do others big ones....yours was a good question.

he is worrisome. he was on fbi most wanted list for a while for drug money laundering - where there is smoke .....

he should at least be behind bars.

Ethanol contains water that distillation cannot remove. As such, it can cause major damage to auto engines not specifically designed to burn ethanol. The water content of ethanol also risks pipeline corrosion and must be shipped by truck, rail car or barge. These shipping methods are far more expensive than pipelines.

Ethanol is 20% to 30% less efficient than gasoline, making it more expensive per highway mile. It takes 450 lbs. of corn to produce the ethanol to fill one SUV tank. That's enough corn to feed 1 person for a year. Additionally, it takes more than 1 gallon of fossil fuel -- oil and natural gas -- to produce 1 gallon of ethanol. Corn must be grown, fertilized, harvested and trucked to ethanol producers -- all of which are fuel burning activities. And, it takes 1,700 gallons of water to produce 1 gallon of ethanol. On top of all this, if our total corn output were put to ethanol production, it would reduce gasoline consumption by only 10% or 12%.

Ethanol is costly it wouldn't survive in a free market. That's why Congress enacted major ethanol subsidies, about $1.05 to $1.38 a gallon, which is no less than a tax on consumers. In fact, there's a double tax -- one in the form of ethanol subsidies and another in the form of handouts to corn farmers to the tune of $9.5 billion in 2005 alone.

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But there's more wrong with this picture. If Congress and President Bush say we need less reliance on oil and greater use of renewable fuels, then why would Congress impose a stiff tariff, 54 cents a gallon, on ethanol from Brazil? Brazilian ethanol is produced from sugar cane and is far more energy efficient, cleaner and much cheaper to produce. Ethanol production has driven up the prices of corn-fed livestock, such as beef, chicken and dairy products, and products made from corn, such as cereals. As a result of higher demand for corn, other grain prices, such as soybean and wheat have risen dramatically. The fact that the U.S. is the world's largest grain producer and exporter means that the ethanol-induced higher grain prices will have a continued effect on worldwide food prices.

It's easy to understand how the general public looking for cheaper gas could be taken in by the call for increased ethanol usage. But politicians, corn farmers and ethanol producers know they are running a cruel hoax on the American consumer. They're in it strictly for the money. The top leader in this hoax is Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), the country's largest producer of ethanol. Ethanol producers and the farm lobby have pressured farm state congressmen into believing that it would be political suicide if they didn't support subsidized ethanol production. That's the stick. Campaign contributions play the role of the carrot.

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yup

sunflowers are not basic food and that is what newly cultivated land around 4 corners area is growing and turning making into ethanol...

some say teddy roosevelt when trying to set up antitrust laws and so forth caused heartburn to many who deliberately brought about a recession that eventually turned in to the great depression.

i need to go back and reread ... that topic came up early last year..but have slept since then...smile!

when the rich get upset by politicians aiming to help its citizens who get hurt.