Future of Ethanol

[Duck Butter]

Why has this not been addressed here? Lets hope this may be the end of corn for gas

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...75F5IN20110616

[Wide Open]

Man I hope so that stuff is tearing things up

[Wide Open]

Now if they'll just put the sulfur back in diesel.

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by Wide Open

Now if they'll just put the sulfur back in diesel.

and lead back in gasoline:*****:

[Wide Open]

Originally Posted by Duck Butter

and lead back in gasoline:*****:

YUP!

[LPfishnTIM]

lowering the amount of sulfur in diesel is what makes it cost more, the sulfur isn't an additive.

[PaulMyers]

Originally Posted by LPfishnTIM

lowering the amount of sulfur in diesel is what makes it cost more, the sulfur isn't an additive.

Correct but ULSD does not work well in some older farm equipment.

Sent from my EVO

[Wide Open]

Originally Posted by LPfishnTIM

lowering the amount of sulfur in diesel is what makes it cost more, the sulfur isn't an additive.

And its tearing up injector pumps with out it!

[LPfishnTIM]

Originally Posted by Wide Open

And its tearing up injector pumps with out it!

yeah Ive seen what biodiesel does to injector pumps too! it gel coats it till it doesn't work any more!

[Raymond]

Ethanol is a scheme foisted upon the public by the corn lobby/green energy fruitloops. If anyone remembers back in the 80's, they had ethanol plants all over Louisiana. EWE was a big backer(wonder why?) but when the plants lost their subsidy they went under. Most of those plants were cut up and shipped to Brazil where they still are right now. BTU's of ethanol can't compete with gasoline which is why you get fewer mpg's with blended gas. Millions of acres of marginal farm land is being tilled because it is easy to grow corn, all you need is irrigation. Flip side is the cost of just about everything else has increased due to contracts for corn being sold to ethanol manufacturers. In the last ten years, my dads farm payments have gone through the roof and will be up again this year due to weather/ethanol. Check out the price of;pork,beef,chicken,ect. in the stores. If they break the corn lobby, our farm income will suffer but the nation will be stronger for it. Sometimes you have to do what is best in the long run and eliminating ethanol as a green energy source is best for our country.

[SULPHITE]

Originally Posted by Raymond

Ethanol is a scheme foisted upon the public by the corn lobby/green energy fruitloops. If anyone remembers back in the 80's, they had ethanol plants all over Louisiana. EWE was a big backer(wonder why?) but when the plants lost their subsidy they went under. Most of those plants were cut up and shipped to Brazil where they still are right now. BTU's of ethanol can't compete with gasoline which is why you get fewer mpg's with blended gas. Millions of acres of marginal farm land is being tilled because it is easy to grow corn, all you need is irrigation. Flip side is the cost of just about everything else has increased due to contracts for corn being sold to ethanol manufacturers. In the last ten years, my dads farm payments have gone through the roof and will be up again this year due to weather/ethanol. Check out the price of;pork,beef,chicken,ect. in the stores. If they break the corn lobby, our farm income will suffer but the nation will be stronger for it. Sometimes you have to do what is best in the long run and eliminating ethanol as a green energy source is best for our country.

tell dat to the illinios democrat crew....how can filling up a vehicle more often be good for the enviroment. How can dumping gas because it has sat too long and worried it may screw up your outboard etc..be good for the enviroment?

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by SULPHITE

tell dat to the illinios democrat crew....how can filling up a vehicle more often be good for the enviroment. How can dumping gas because it has sat too long and worried it may screw up your outboard etc..be good for the enviroment?

D, five years ago my dad was in North Dakota on a directional job for a month. He called to find out if there was anything he could bring me back and replied, 500 acres of land. At that time you could buy farm land in N Dakota for $250-$500/acre. That same land has gone to $4000-$5000/acre now and driven only by the ethanol boom. It will be hard to end this sham because so many people are on the gravy train; implement dealers,trucking companies,utilities,municipalities,states,venture capitalist,walll street,ect.