Comments on: Vilsack Anticipates Approval of E15

By: Delay on E15 Waiver “Troubling” - Domestic Fuel

Delay on E15 Waiver “Troubling” - Domestic Fuel — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:04:30 +0000

[...] to Jennings, Robert White with the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA), and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, the EPA is doing more work on small engines and the effect of ethanol blends on catalytic [...]

By: Madein USA

Madein USA — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:11:14 +0000

Trade corn for sugarcane? Yea, let’s buy all our fuel from Brazil and the Terrorists Countries. Our energy problem will soon dissapear because we won’t produce anything in the U.S. anymore and nobody will be able to afford transportation. Let’s work towards domestic fuel production and domestic jobs and use instead of bashing domestic fuel any chance there is.

By: SacramentoE85

SacramentoE85 — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:07:00 +0000

Brazil has their own 20% tariff on imported ethanol. Currently they don’t have enough sugar and have reduced their ethanol blend. I agree though, there should be a tariff against all imported fuels, not just ethanol. Apply the tariff income to domestic fuel production. That would definitely spur production of domestic fuel, and counter the effect of higher priced imported fuel with lower priced domestic fuel. Brazil cannot supply the U.S. if it can’t supply itself. Brazilian ethanol imports is a Red Herring that Oil puts out there to distract attention from more important topics.

By: Chip Daigle

Chip Daigle — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:43:21 +0000

Corn Ethanol only gets 25% Reduction in Carbon Emissions if you use Natural Gas burners. If you add sugar in the process, you could get more carbon reduction, maybe 50% I’m just guessing.

Sugarcane Ethanol gets 85% Carbon Reduction.

We need a policy that get clean and green Ethanol next year. The Subsidy for Ethanol should be given in proportion to the Reduction in Carbon Emissions. This would encourage more sugarcane Ethanol and less Corn ethanol. Cellulosic is 10 years away and Trillions of Taxpayer Dollars to go. I suggest 25 Cents for Corn Ethanol and 85 Cents for Sugarcane Ethanol. Maybe we could give 50 Cents for Corn Ethanol produced with Sugar. Cellulosic and Ethanol from Algae would get their subsidies when they start producing and not until.

The Tariff on Clean Green Imported Sugarcane Ethanol and not on Dirty Gasoline coming from Terrorist Sympathizing Countries does not make sense other than to protect the Corn Farmers and Corn Ethanol producers which are giving us 25%. We can do better next year; we must do better.

Trade Corn for Sugarcane Ethanol. Poor countries get food and increase their Economies. They overcome poverty and drug trafficking at the same time. American gets cleaner Ethanol next year. And after we modify the cars to be Flex-Fuel Vehicles, we can begin using E15 in the modified cars.

I suggest Congress require all new cars be E85 FFV’s next year. I would also like to see E15 Modification kits for all older vehicles before we do something stupid like E15 Regular Gasoline.