"To bolster development of ethanol and other biofuels, the Energy Department will make available $786 million in stimulus funds. The Agriculture Department will dedicate $1.1 billion"
Pffffffft! For something that doesn't even work and is harmful!
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"Biofuels get boost; ethanol questioned; Obama allots $2b to help expand use" by Catherine Dodge and Tina Seeley, Bloomberg News | May 6, 2009
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is injecting nearly $2 billion to encourage more production of advanced biofuels while reviewing an initial finding that some corn ethanol doesn't meet pollution-reduction standards.
No, the amount of energy needed to make the stuff exceeds that which is saved if you just burn regular old gasoline. What we have here are special interests that don't give a damn about the environment, science, or people, just the $$$.
The effort is intended to create jobs, reduce US dependence on overseas oil, and curb greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming, the administration said yesterday. At the same time, the environmental value of biofuels must be accurately calculated, Cabinet officials said.
The first thing you can do is quit lying about global warming. Nearly every day this spring has been below average for temperature, so knock it off!!!
The second thing is stop burning our food, period! There are people dying of starvation in this world, did you know that? I'd rather feed them than drive a car!
The agency's initial review found that certain methods of corn ethanol production don't meet a requirement to emit 20 percent less greenhouse gas than gasoline does. "Corn ethanol was never going to be the global warming solution," said Eli Hopson, a lobbyist for the Union of Concerned Scientists in Cambridge.
That's not what the enviro-cultists and MSM were saying five years ago!!!!
Developing next-generation biofuels is critical to meeting the standards Congress established in 2007, Hopson said. The law quadrupled the requirement for blending ethanol and other biofuels into gasoline supplies.
Yup, when you FILL UP you are SLOWLY DESTROYING YOUR ENGINE, 'murkn.
They are WATERING DOWN the GASOLINE!!! I thought that needle was moving awfully quick!
Ethanol producers have struggled amid lower demand for fuel and volatile prices for corn, which currently is the primary source of the alternative fuel in the United States.
To bolster development of ethanol and other biofuels, the Energy Department will make available $786 million in stimulus funds. The Agriculture Department will dedicate $1.1 billion.
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Ummmmmmm.....
"One major concern with biofuels such as corn-based ethanol is that they raise food prices and, in their growing and processing, cause more environmental harm than gasoline does."
"Studies in the past year have concluded that the rush to biofuels has had some disastrous if unintended consequences: less food available to eat in poor countries, skyrocketing global grain prices and a loss of forests as farmers create new fields to join in the biofuel boom"
"Well, besides using up food crops and driving up food prices, producing a far less energetic fuel that you have to buy and burn more of to get the same work, and setting aside the fact that ethanol fuel destroys the engine gaskets in the fuel system, what's to doubt? I mean, it's not like biofuel was supposed to actually work; it's just another sounds-good-on-TV not-quite-thought-all-the-way-through jingo for political campaigns." -- Mike Rivero of whatreallyhappened.com
