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61 comments on Gasoline Blending 101: The Ethanol Blending Requirement

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D111 on July 28, 2008 - 10:55am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

The operative word is "peaking". Gasoline is still available and the premium between buying 100% gasoline vs. the blends is maybe 20 cents a gallon.

For the extra dimes, you get fuel that is not adulterated --- ethanol has less energy per unit --- and you get to send a message to the ethanol lobby that you do not appreciate the scam they pulled on US taxpayers.

FYI, the US bans duty free imports of ethanol so that their ethanol lobbyists can live high off the hog.

Leave me out of it.

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kdolliso on July 28, 2008 - 11:11am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Some people are looking a year, or two, into the future.

And, FYI, we imported about 400,000,000 Gallons of "tariff-free" ethanol this year; and, we'll import about 600,000,000 gallons of "tariff-free" ethanol in 09'.

BTW, that "duty-free" ethanol gets the $0.51/gal Blenders Credit just like Domestic ethanol does.

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D111 on July 28, 2008 - 11:18am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Great!

You go buy the stuff --- and subsidize the lazy native ethanol farmers and brewers.

Now, let the free market decide whether we want gasoline (pure) and is willing to pay for it, or that blended stuff.

Can the tax credit so I don't pay it each time I buy a steak, have corn flakes, pork chops, chicken, or everything else that corn and grains go into.

I don't need to be reminded of the power of this corrupt ethanol lobby every time I buy groceries.

Quite frankly, I would pay a nice premium for gasoline just to put these ethanol tax thieves out of business.

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kdolliso on July 28, 2008 - 11:25am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Yeah, you liked it better when I was subsidizing you every time you ate a steak, or a bowl of corn flakes; Didn't you?

Lazy, "Native" ethanol farmers? Okey, dokey. I think we've got YOU figured out, now.

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D111 on July 28, 2008 - 11:41am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

You are free to go to Washington to demand an end to agricultural supports and any subsidies on cattle, beef, pig and pork production.

Let's put the Department of Agriculture out of business.

While we are at it... Department of Energy has got to be pretty high on the list too....

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jfrancis on July 28, 2008 - 1:04pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Is it a viable proposition to increase the supply of ethanol by increasing imports from Brazil and other tropical countries? I understand that there would be some resistance from the farm lobby. But if we could do this incrementally, maybe it is implementable. Thus we can reduce the price of ethanol and reduce the amount of corn going into biofuels and reduce impacts on food costs.

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