Actually, ethanol was more expensive to produce until about 2006 when
federal ethanol mandates penalized the production of regular gasoline in
order to make ethanol fuel look more attractive. Take a good look at this:
http://www.neo.ne.gov/statshtml/66.html
As to the farmers, I have one acronym... PIK. Anytime you have to pay
someone NOT to do their job something is seriously wrong....
Cheers!!
Jim
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Kurt Appley <kmappley at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to add that a friend made acquaintance with fellow in the fuel
> blending business and was told that you have been getting a greater than
> 10%
> blend for some time. Nobody checks and the alcohol is CHEAPER, or at least
> has been. I believe that somewhere I got the information that a blend above
> 20% isn't harmful. A while back someone, I believe, on this list was happy
> to see E 85 pumps because he could blend a mix that his high compression
> engine would run on. [ Alcohol in--Octane up!].
> Then, the subject of ethanol raising the cost of food!!!
> Wake up people, inflation is running rampant because of the 2008 mess from
> completely deregulated big banking.
> The Fed has opened the spigot and that has made food produced in this
> country look cheap to many around the world!! That has had a far greater
> effect on prices than alcohol.
>
> Kurt.
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