The Further Lunacy Of Burning Food In Your Engine
I am putting this thread in "Politics" because the policy of forcing ethanol into our gasoline blends is 100% political in nature and a successful product of an open conspiracy between the Federal government, Congress, presidents of differing ilk, and ag. rent-seekers. It continues unabated even as new sources of much cheaper domestic oil are rushing on line.
Besides the elevation of cost for fuel these forced and false imperatives have wrought on the general populace, there are valid reasons to believe that food scarcities of diversion of corn and other food stuffs to fuel have caused shortages in other countries leading to riots and unrest. One theory goes so far as to put rapidly rising food costs to the poor as the percipitating factor of the "Arab Spring" turmoil and its consequences.
Even the Algores of the world concede that burning food as fuel has no beneficial effects on their holy carbon war.
Now, we learn what has been decreed while we have been asleep. In the Byzantine world of bureaucratic shenanigans rules force refiners to buy government "Renewable Credits" when or if ethanol becomes scarce, as it has from current drought conditions. This rule inevitably effects you at the pump because of the fictions created by the rules levied on refiners by the government/AG cartel requiring their product be used even though it brings nothing to the table but cost.
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/03/0...he-blend-wall/
Another glaring example of the Federal government screwing you to tears.
