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Study Shows Ethanol Energy Efficiency Is Growing

Dear Sub,

You still need to subtract the savings of farm subsidies not spent against the ethanol subsidy. If in fact you believe ethanol caused the price of grains to increase.

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Big oil worrying about the environment? Hillarious!!! They are just trying to retain their monopoly.

Study Shows Ethanol Energy Efficiency Is Growing

Duude

are you willing to get rid of all subsidies? We could start by getting rid of the subsidies oil and natural gas receive.

Ethanol: Our Answer to Reducing U.S. Dependence on Foreign Oil

Dear Sub,
There are millions of Flexfuel vehicles out there. They all go just as far on E30 as gasoline.

Lets talk subsidies for a minute. For 30 years the price of corn was below the production cost of corn. Farmers made money on price supports ie subsidies. Farmers grow 13 billion bushels of corn per year. They were selling at $2/bushel and getting a subsidy to $2.95/bushel. that cost the American cosumer $12 Billion/year. And that was just corn! There are price supports for Soybeans, wheat, and even tobacco. If we subsidies ethanol 45 cents per gallon and make 9 billion gallons, that only cost $4 billion per year. We are saving tax payer money with ethanol.

Lets convert Tobacco farms to produce food!

Ethanol: Our Answer to Reducing U.S. Dependence on Foreign Oil

Dear Crude,

Restore the wetlands around New Orleans. It fed off the runoff for centuries untill we wiped it out.

Other than that your response made little sense. If we grow more corn, we have more nitrogen run off. Corn is also not our only source of nitrogen run off. Have you ever seen what seeps from cattle feeding operations? The cattle feed off of the same corn we grow for ethanol.

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Who says the wind blows more at night? Wind is a form of solar power. I live in the wind corridor. There is much more wind durring the day.

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Dear Yalmer,

The subsidies are paid to the refiners and blenders. As long as the mandate remains, the subsidies could go away without hurting the ethanol producers.

Growth in Corn Harvest Means Good News for Ethanol Producers

Dear Red Barron,

Most of the plants were built when gasoline was $1.85/gallon. $5 corn is still profitable if gas is $3.75/gallon.

If the mandates go away so does my position. Removing the subsidies would have no effect on the ethanol companies if the mandate is still in place. The subsidies are paid to the refiners and blenders, not the ethanol companies.

More Bad News for the Anti-Ethanol Crowd

Dear Susan,

Which food product got to the store without using oil? If there is only 10 cents worth of corn in a box of corn flakes, and corn flakes cost $5 at your store where is the other $4.9 going? Transportation cost and the health care cost at Kellogs, the grocery store, and the trucking company that brought the corn flakes to your store.

The corn syrup in your other products is a byproduct of ethanol production. It is one of the things left after you remove the starch from corn. Ethanol production increase the amount of corn syrup being produced in the US.

Corn is currently selling at $5.5/bushel. 50 years ago corn was $3/bushel. 50 years ago gas was 30cents/gallon. Today it is $3.56.

Stop blaming ethanol.

More Bad News for the Anti-Ethanol Crowd

Subsidy, I already said I was in favor of removing the ethanol tax credit. I am also in favor of removing the beneficial tax treatment of oil drilling. They need no financial incentive to drill for $120/barrel gas.

You are also correct in saying that our money will be replaced with money from China and India, in the coffers of Middle east terrorist. So will their anger. If we are no longer their biggest trading partner we are no longer the symbol of economic development and education. Religious extremist fear the education and Westernization of their people. It lessons their control. It is all about power and control. If China becomes the new trading partner and economic engine, China will become the focus of their hate. Just my opinion. I also believe China is too smart to put themselves in our position of being dependent on such an unstable part of the world. China has no trouble subsidizing alternative energy.

Dear Sub, we should have coffe some time, I think we would agree more than you believe.

More Bad News for the Anti-Ethanol Crowd

Dear Susan,

The price of diesel fuel made up most of your price increase. Oil is heavy, it cost more to ship than corn flakes. Theres is still only 10 cents worth of corn in a box of corn flakes that sell for $3.

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The only way ethanol could use 30% of the corn crop would be if 100% of the corn crop were used for ethanol. The ethanol plants remove the starch, about 30% of the corn's volume, and return the rest into the food supply.

More Bad News for the Anti-Ethanol Crowd

We need the mandates because oil has a monopoly on our liquid fuel supply. The subsidies go to the refineries which are owned by the oil industry not the ethanol industry. The increase in the price of corn saved the Fed 8 billion in farm subsidies per year. That is more than the price of these subsidies.

The tariff on foreign ethanol is necessary to protect an industry in it's infancy, much the same way China has protected it's industries from American competition. Once the infrastructure of Ethanol has been built, they will probably not be necessary.

Majority of Americans Support Ethanol

Most of you posters are making the authors point. Did you see how many anti-ethanol pro oil people jumped in to voice what is wrong with Ethanol. I have been following Seeking Alpha long enough to see that little real investment information goes on here. How many of you are short ethanol or evan paid bashers for the oil industry?

The Mississippi river was closed last week because of a fuel spill. It was not Ethanol. Did the Exon Valdez spill Ethanol on the Alaska coast? Are we buying Ethanol from terrorist or Communist?

When mixed 90/10 gasoline/Ethanol my car gets better mileage than when I use 100% gasoline.

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bzh1111

What ecological disaster are you refering to?