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Originally Posted by RANDY P
They replaced Ethanol Subsidies with a mandate requiring petroleum companies to produce lots and lots of the stuff.
I wish would could get parts readily that will work with the stuff- especially the vapor lock issues. If it wasn't for that the stuff (and rotting rubber) would be OK.
rjp
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Zackly. the gubmint gave them tax money to produce ethanol for years, recently they decided to change strategies.
They made it a law that they have to use a certain volume, and now force the refineries come up with the crap uh I mean ethanol or pay huge fines. Cubic fines. Humungus among us fines.
In the long run the taxpayers still end up paying stupid $$$ for crap they don't want but this way they blame the oil companies for ripping them off instead of the gubmint!
brilliant!
In the mean time the price of a bushel of corn has more than doubled in the past 4 years. that means that almost all food prices have to go up too. Beef? yep, corn feed makes beef more 'spensive. Same with chickens and bacon life support systems.
How many foods contain corn meal or corn syrup or other corn products? lots and lots.
But it makes more sense to some einsteins to take
food and burn it inneficiently even though it costs too much and results in more pollution than the fuel it displaces.
All so some envirotards can FEEL good.