Wow, have you seen the Price of corn!!!

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craigmn

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It's not the ethanol that is making it so expensive, it's that it's in literally everything. All your meat is fattened with corn, your drinks and food sweetened with the syrup of corn, there is lecithin derived from corn stabilizing and thickening everything you eat. There are few things you eat that aren't biproducts of corn. Soy is in a lot of the things you eat too, so blame the government for paying corn producers to produce more and more corn at a loss.
 

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Well, but the Obummer wants the US Navy to use bio fuels for the fleets. Well, the bio fuel they wish to use costs $26.00 per gallon so you kids go figure this out, good night and good luck. That is from Edward R. Murrow, the last real journalist, that was not biased in the last century.
 

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Since 2005, more and more of the nation's field corn crop has gone to create ethanol. Fuel blenders are obliged under the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act to mix a certain amount of eligible biofuels into the gasoline they sell. The blenders receive a tax credit of 45 cents per gallon of ethanol.

"For corn-based biofuels such as ethanol, the current mandate (under EISA) is 12.6 billion gallons, which increases to 15 billion in 2015 and remains at that level,"

At this year's level, 39% of U.S. field corn is used to produce the gasoline substitute. A third of that comes back into the food supply as distillers' grains, a by-product of ethanol production, which can be added to animal feed, bringing the total down to 24%.
 

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Since 2005, more and more of the nation's field corn crop has gone to create ethanol. Fuel blenders are obliged under the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act to mix a certain amount of eligible biofuels into the gasoline they sell. The blenders receive a tax credit of 45 cents per gallon of ethanol.

"For corn-based biofuels such as ethanol, the current mandate (under EISA) is 12.6 billion gallons, which increases to 15 billion in 2015 and remains at that level,"

At this year's level, 39% of U.S. field corn is used to produce the gasoline substitute. A third of that comes back into the food supply as distillers' grains, a by-product of ethanol production, which can be added to animal feed, bringing the total down to 24%.

But there are still gas stations that don't have ethenol in their fuel. State law states that the station has to post signs/stickers on the pump if there is ethenol or not.

I won't burn the crap.
 

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