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2018-02-22 Economy

Sen. Cruz rallies refinery workers for ethanol mandate change

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-02-22 02:42|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Ethanol is yet another vote getting agri-scam. See wind farms, subsidized milk, food stamps, free cell phones, and the war on coal for more information.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-02-22 07:31|| 2018-02-22 07:31|| Front Page Top

#2 The whole ethanol scheme sounds like a VW type scam to me.

Posted by AlanC 2018-02-22 08:11|| 2018-02-22 08:11|| Front Page Top

#3 It began in 1919 with the addition of Tetraethyl lead and they've been buggering around with gasoline ever since.

In 1919, Dayton Metal Products Co. merged with General Motors. They formed a research division that set out to solve two problems: the need for high compression engines and the insufficient supply of fuel that would run them. On December 9, 1921 chemists led by Charles F. Kettering and his assistants Thomas Midgley and T.A. Boyd added Tetraethyl lead to the fuel in a laboratory engine. The ever present knock, caused by auto-ignition of fuel being compressed past its ignition temperature, was completely silenced. Most all automobiles at the time were subject to this engine knock so the research team was overjoyed. Over time, other manufacturers found that by adding lead to fuel they could significantly improve the octane rating of the gas. This allowed them to produce much cheaper grades of fuel and still maintain the needed octane ratings that a car’s engine required.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-02-22 08:30|| 2018-02-22 08:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Does a corn surplus mean a drop in whiskey prices?

Posted by Skidmark 2018-02-22 09:44|| 2018-02-22 09:44|| Front Page Top

#5 "Does a corn surplus mean a drop in whiskey prices?"

Maybe, plus the cost to feed beef cattle and other delicious animals. Might lower the price of that chuck roast or brisket, too.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2018-02-22 09:51|| 2018-02-22 09:51|| Front Page Top

#6 A corn surplus might help the millions of people nearly at starvation put there by the diversion of corn to making alcohol for automobiles.

What a scam. Doing the math, you find that ethanol is BTU negative, meaning that the distillation process consumes more BTU's than the generated BTU's of the ethanol. The only place in the world where ethanol is not BTU negative is Brazil where they use the sugar cane pulp to fire the boilers...of course the EPA would have a fit if we tried that.

BTW, electricity is BTU negative when the energy source is natural gas.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-02-22 10:08|| 2018-02-22 10:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Good - now bring back incandescent light bulbs before I run out of 40 & 60 watt bulbs - I only have 40 of them left!

Posted by Raj 2018-02-22 10:15|| 2018-02-22 10:15|| Front Page Top

#8 ...plants churning them out in Mexico.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-02-22 11:19|| 2018-02-22 11:19|| Front Page Top

#9 LEDs are vastly better TBH.

Could you sell incandescent lights as combined heat and light devices?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-02-22 16:01|| 2018-02-22 16:01|| Front Page Top

#10 The light bulbs are back. I just bought 4 120W

Posted by newc 2018-02-22 17:53|| 2018-02-22 17:53|| Front Page Top

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