There are so many problems with Ethanol it's not funny.  While it can be used as a fuel, it turns out there is NO cost savings, energy savings, or environmental savings from it. Producing Ethanol uses MORE energy than it creates! It also creates MORE air pollution and environmental damage than oil does.   It is also INCREASING starvation all over the world. That is IMMORAL! CLICK HERE to see the Ethanol Myths video clip. Ethanol: The Political Fuel

Ethanol production is driving worldwide food prices sky high.  Corn is used in thousands of food products and that will make the costs of almost every food go up. It is estimated that 90% of Americans use a corn based product everyday. Corn is also used as grain to feed chickens and cattle. Think about it, not only will it cost us Americans more for food, but it's going to cost the poorest people of the world more for food.  That's nothing but cruel and IMMORAL! Growing corn and sugar for Ethanol has become a big business. The problem it is costing us all a lot more money, and starving people all over the world. Is it really worth the cost? Ethanol and the Calculation Issue

Ethanol is now causing MORE starvation around the world with the poorest among us being the hardest hit. Average Mexicans will end up spending up to a third of their total income on tortillas a main staple of food in Mexico. CLICK HERE to read more about this.

In Mexico the rising cost corn has driven up the cost of of tortillas that has caused protests from thousands of people. CLICK HERE to read the story.

The corn or sugar used to make Ethanol also takes a lot of fertilizer, and clean water to make it grow. As environmentalists will tell you (true or not) the Earth is running dangerously low of fresh water. 

In fact they say that it is Global Warming itself that is depleting the worlds fresh water supplies.
But one of the solutions they propose is using Ethanol which needs massive amounts of water to produce.  Their solutions are actually contradicting themselves! 

It takes 450 pounds of corn to produce the ethanol to fill only ONE SUV tank. 
That's enough corn to feed one person for a YEAR! It's no wonder why food prices are rising.
Plus, it takes more than one gallon of fossil fuel -- oil and natural gas -- to produce one gallon of ethanol. It also takes 1,800 gallons of water to produce ONE gallon of ethanol!

Growing corn for fuel is using a lot more water, driving water prices up, and causing more water shortages around the world. In the August 2007 issue of the journal Human Ecology, it suggested that more WARS may occur over the shortages of water, and the shortages and high prices of food in the world.
They say that historically this has been the case in the past.

Fertilizer costs are also rising making EVERY crop more expensive to grow. That leads to even higher food prices.  And the herbicides and pesticides necessary to grow corn at an industrial scale leach toxins into the groundwater.  Once again, it's the poorest of the poor who are being affected by this the most.

Outside the U.S., rapidly growing demand for ethanol could worsen hunger in developing countries.
Using more corn crops for fuel puts more pressure on supply and demand, raising the cost of food.

Despite the huge, taxpayer supported agricultural subsidies, the prices of corn — and tortillas — have been climbing rapidly causing shortages in the poorest parts of Mexico.

Greg Page, president and chief operating officer of Cargill Inc., a leading ethanol producer said;
"We as leaders should be asking, "What prices are we prepared to make the world's poor pay for food?".

The Envirowackos don't REALLY care about the worlds poor people starving to death.  All they care about is making a political statement about the imaginary effects of "Global Warming" to make themselves feel like they are doing something to help the Earth, when the TRUTH is that they will be making problems worse.

I was in the supermarket recently and there was a flyer placed over the milk aisle explaining why milk prices were rising.  The U.S, current prices are higher than ever at $3.80 a gallon.

I recently paid $7.00 for a gallon of orange juice. That's more than DOUBLE than the price of gasoline!
Because of the cold temperatures (what happened to the warming?) much of this years orange crop has been lost.  Why isn't Hillary Clinton investigating the orange growers "excessive profits"?
 
 

Corn feed costs are rising because of the mandate for Ethanol and that's driving Milk, Cheese, Butter, Ice Cream and many other types of food prices sky high. Expect Milk Prices To Rise Click Here to see the video

Click Here to see how Ethanol is causing milk prices to rise.

In my state we are FORCED to have 10% Ethanol in our gasoline. Ever since this FORCED change I've been using high test premium gasoline instead of regular to get the same performance from my engine in my nice new car.

I DO notice the difference.  Meanwhile, our taxes are being used to subsidize this losing proposition.

I want back my FREE CHOICE of whether to use regular gasoline or an Ethanol blend that I know is more corrosive to my engine.  Which, of course, will cause me to buy a new car sooner, which is going to cause more damage to the environment.  Can you hear me banging my head against the wall?  No?  It must be because of the loud knocking of my engine from putting that crap into it!

Congress has now MANDATED (meaning they have taken away your FREEDOM of choice) the use of Ethanol in it's 2007 Energy Bill, which, of course, doesn't create ANY new energy at all, it only says that we should use less. Great solution for a growing country.

To create Ethanol they must also use Natural Gas in it's production thereby wasting even MORE energy. In fact scientists are now estimating that it uses 30% MORE energy to create the Ethanol than the energy the Ethanol creates.

Did you Global Warming fools get that?  100% of the energy created by Ethanol costs 130% in other forms of energy to create the Ethanol, which is MORE polluting that other types of energy.

This is only slightly less stupid than buying oil from terrorists than drilling our own oil here in the United States!

This article, says there is a "slight swelling and blistering on the carburetor and an increase in carbon deposits on pistons."  Wait a minute here!  MORE Carbon?!!!
I thought Ethanol was supposed to have LESS Carbon?  If it's on the pistons it MUST be going through the exhaust also!

The article goes on to say that 20% blend of Ethanol in gasoline causes "substantial problems" in engines.  Some people say that we can simply use newer engines that can handle the Ethanol.  Then what happens with all the old engines?  What about vintage cars? What about lower income people who can't afford new engines? Will they be stuck with problem engines? 

Ethanol is costing about $1.75 cents a gallon.  Not bad you say?
Let's think about the REALITY of the situation. Ethanol is being subsidized by MILLIONS of your YOUR tax dollars, because they can't actually make any money with it, so the cost is much more than you realize.
We are all paying to LOOSE money with this bad idea.

Gasoline is being taxed at a rate of 75 cents to $1.50 per gallon or more in the United States. Add that tax onto the actual prices of Ethanol and it will actually cost MORE than gasoline!  Don't think that LIBERAL politicians taxing will stop taxing ANY form of energy in this country.  Some states now even tax windmills and solar panels!

Ethanol cannot be sent through pipelines like oil can. This is a complicated issue that can be read about HERE. This is a HUGE problem to overcome.

Since it can't be sent by pipelines that means that Ethanol must be trucked to reach filling stations.  That means MUCH MORE fuel use just to get the fuel, which uses more fuel, in fact at least 35% MORE fuel, to create Ethanol as the energy it produces for us. This is resulting in a net LOSS of energy because of the use of Ethanol.

So, in reality, Ethanol is polluting and costing MORE than oil.  Meanwhile, Congress is MANDATING that we subsidize it with our tax dollars.

This is only slightly less stupid than doing what we do now which is to buy oil from terrorist supporting nations, WHEN WE HAVE OUR OWN OIL THAT WE COULD DRILL RIGHT HERE IN THE UNITED STATES!

The idiocy of all this is mind boggling.

While we have billions of gallons of untapped oil, and untold megawatts of electricity available to us from Nuclear power, the sustainability of using biofuels such as Ethanol. 

The question of sustainability arises when we consider that ethanol from corn can't possibly be grown forever because growing corn depletes the soil even if sustainable farming methods such as crop rotation are used. Some researchers argue that ethanol production from corn could wear out the soil within 30 years. Then we will be without energy AND without food!

A recent story by the AP stated that Ethanol is great solution because it is cheaper than gasoline.
A bit further down in the story they revealed the truth of that statement by adding that it was government subsidies (your tax dollars) that made it that way.

Ethanol has been shown to damage engines partially because it is water soluble, and has the ability to pick up water, and that corrodes engines and pipelines.

Another new problem is that the Environmental Protection Agency is now saying the burning of Ethanol is causing MORE pollution, and that it causes Carbon Monoxide and carcinogens "many times greater" than they promised.  Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are being released by the ethanol plants include formaldehyde and acetic acid, both carcinogens. 

The fumes are produced when fermented corn mash is dried for sale as a supplement for livestock feed. Devices known as thermal oxidizers can be attached to the plants to burn off the dangerous gases.  Yet Congress is forcing states to produce more Ethanol!

Remember when Sting and all the other environmentalists warned us about cutting down the rain forests?  They told us without the rain forests in South America the planet would die very soon. So what's happening in South American countries like Brazil today?  Farmers are cutting down the forests in order to grow corn and sugar for Ethanol! Farmland in Brazil is being burned, in preparation for planting corn and beans. A new study finds that ethanol production drives such land clearing,  is contributing greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.  So the forests are disappearing at a FASTER rate than they were before. Local water supplies are being used up and food prices are climbing.

Noted ecologist and primate scientist Jane Goodall says biofuel crops are hurting the rain forests. She says the race to grow crops for vehicle fuels is damaging rain forests in Asia, Africa, and South America, and adding to the emissions blamed for global warming.

Critics say that the demand for the fuels has led companies to cut down and burn forests in order to grow the crops, adding to heat trapping emissions and leading to erosion and stress on ecosystems. "Biofuel isn't the answer to everything" says Goodall.

After the corn and sugar is picked the South American farmers then burn the dried out crops so that it will make cheaper fertilizer for growing the new crop and cause them less work in removing the old growth. Sometimes they burn the fields before they pick the sugar. It doesn't hurt the cane and it increases the concentration of the sugar.

This creates MASSIVE amounts of air pollution.  This pollution situation is so bad that the pollution is now causing respiratory illnesses in OTHER COUNTRIES than the ones growing the crops for Ethanol!   Doesn't all this just make you want to bang your head against the wall?!!!

Ethanol – hailed by some as a "green" fuel that would reduce America's dependence on foreign oil – is in a major slump here and nationwide.

Across California, profit margins are vanishing, new plants are being canceled and some existing facilities are struggling. The state's first major plant, opened in Tulare County in 2005, has suspended operations. 

And now Pacific Ethanol, in a bombshell filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, has revealed big quarterly losses, major construction-cost overruns, defaults on its bank loans and a liquidity squeeze. 

Ethanol has been a victim of its own success. Increasing demand brought a flood of new supply to market while causing a spike in corn prices.

As ethanol prospers, it demands more corn, which runs up the price of corn, which diminishes (ethanol's) profitability.

Pacific Ethanol stock, which traded above $40 during the industry's boom two years ago is now selling for $4.33 on the Nasdaq market.

Pacific Ethanol has lost an estimated $14.7 million in the fourth quarter, although it has delayed the final release of those results because of its financial problems. Multimillion-dollar bookkeeping and internal-controls errors created a default on its bank loans. The company also was a victim of cost overruns – which aren't unusual in this industry, experts say – totaling $27 million.

The overruns have contributed to Pacific Ethanol's "extremely limited liquidity" and left the company dependent on a proposed $40 million infusion from an affiliate of its building contractor, W.M. Lyles Co. of Fresno, the SEC filing said.

Without new money, Pacific Ethanol "will be unable to achieve its business objectives," it said.

"There was a point in time when you had $3 corn and $4 ethanol; now you have $6 corn and $2 ethanol," said Rick Eastman, who built the state's first big ethanol plant in Goshen and is now a consultant to Pacific Ethanol. "The whole plan is falling apart."

Some projects are still going forward. Pacific Ethanol's plant at the Port of Stockton, which received tax-exempt bond financing from the state, is making progress, port officials said.

Sure, with YOUR tax dollars funding Ethanol, it might eventually be "profitable". So YOU as a taxpayer will pay before AND after it's made. Then YOUR government will tax YOU again to buy it!
That's not a profit, that's a LOSS to YOU the taxpayer and YOU the buyer.

That's called getting it from the front and behind!
 

Even the EXTREME FAR LEFT New York Times columnist, the ferret-like  Paul Krugman, a TRULY anti-American weasel, agrees that Ethanol and Biofuels are a losing proposition, then you know it must be true! It takes a LOT for a LIberal to admit when they are wrong! Grains Gone Wild - The Biofuel SCAM!

• Ethanol uses as much energy to produce it as the energy it makes. There is NO savings in money or in environmental damage in using Ethanol.

• Ethanol costs you MORE money because the government has to subsidize it with YOUR tax dollars.

• Ethanol causes worldwide food prices to rise, sometimes dramatically, affecting the poorest people we have and possibly even starving them to death.

• Ethanol uses massive amounts of fresh water to produce and will cause many more shortages of fresh water all over the world.

• Ethanol costs more to ship because it cannot be sent through normal pipelines.

• Ethanol use is creating even more deadly toxins and carcinogens such as Carbon Monoxide and formaldehyde.

• Ethanol production is causing the destruction of the rain forests to grow corn and sugar cane.

• Ethanol is causing high amounts of respiratory illnesses by increasing air pollution by the burning of used corn and sugar fields.

• Ethanol can cause damage in normal engines and it's being FORCED upon us and we have NO CHOICE if we want it in our gasoline or not as Congress has mandated it's use.