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| Groups Urge Trump To Fully Repeal The Renewable 'Corn Gas' Fuel Standard Today |
| 2018-05-09 |
| [Hot Air] In the midst of all the political chaos in Washington, normal business has to keep grinding on. One item on the President’s schedule today is a meeting to discuss ethanol mandates and the Renewable Fuel Standard. Thus far the White House has proven reluctant to act on the need to curb government mandated ethanol blending requirements for gasoline, despite the damage the program does to consumers and the broader U.S. energy industry. (Not to mention to equipment such as small engines and marine motors which are damaged by higher ethanol blend fuels.) In anticipation of this meeting, several groups are pushing new awareness campaigns in an effort to get this critical message across. The American Energy Alliance features one of these stories this week. They’re not just looking to reduce the mandates, but eliminate the RFS entirely. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #12 the price of corn on the cob has skyrocketed in the last few years too |
| Posted by: 746 2018-05-09 21:44 |
| #11 Cambridge & Brookline From the sticks (Dudley Square, Malcolm X!) Past a basilisk built outta bricks, Into Brookline. It picks Up slick yiddishe chicks, And in Allston, some kids that like kicks... Yes, it's Harvard Ave's Route 66. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2018-05-09 20:40 |
| #10 At #4 -- I don't think it was a scarcity. Prices of corn tortillas shot up. So, yes, perhaps a scarcity of inexpensive corn tortillas & other corn products. |
| Posted by: Clem 2018-05-09 17:58 |
| #9 Tell the corn lobby to make whiskey from their corn. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-05-09 17:58 |
| #8 Dump this RFS lunacy. We have enough high fructose corn syrup in our lives, don't need high octane corn sludge to further placate the corn belt/farm lobby. |
| Posted by: Clem 2018-05-09 17:57 |
| #7 One word - Iowa. It ain't happening. Next they'll be asking him to cut Social Security and Medicare. Not happening either. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2018-05-09 17:47 |
| #6 I remember trying to find pure gasoline a while back and learned that in most cities it is illegal for gas stations to sell it, and even if you go outside city limits, even into a different county, in the countryside the shit is virtually impossible to find at any price. |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2018-05-09 11:50 |
| #5 Oh you have a 'choice' (actually a penalty). You want the old style gas, you pay an additional $.45 - $.85 per gallon. I'm too lazy to look it up now, but I'm pretty sure ethanol, etc. are subsidized, so real gas would actually cost less than the 'corn gas' the liberals in Cambridge & Brookline love to put in their Priuses. |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-05-09 10:47 |
| #4 Didn't the corn gas lead to food scarcity in Mexico and other places? |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-05-09 10:13 |
| #3 It's not a choice if one side gets state subsidies. See - steel, et al. |
| Posted by: P2kontheroad 2018-05-09 09:19 |
| #2 Oh you have a 'choice' (actually a penalty). You want the old style gas, you pay an additional $.45 - $.85 per gallon. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-05-09 07:55 |
| #1 Here's an idea - give people a choice, not a mandate. |
| Posted by: P2kontheroad 2018-05-09 07:49 |