From The Hill - by Bob Dinneen, president and CEO of the Renewable Fuels Association, the national trade association for the U.S. ethanol industry.With the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the turmoil in the Middle East, the continuing concern with greenhouse gases and the need to generate jobs in cutting-edge industries, President Obama has called for a “national mission” to end America’s addiction to imported oil. This month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to announce a crucial decision about the future of the only fuel currently available to replace and reduce oil imports: American ethanol. After almost a year of delay, the EPA will finally release a ruling on whether to increase the ethanol content allowed in gasoline blends from 10 percent (E10) to 15 percent (E15). Unfortunately, EPA has hinted it will limit the use of E15 to newer vehicles — those made more recently than 2001 or perhaps even 2007. Read more:
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Yes, and ignorant people don't grasp the facts. Corn fuel costs more to produce than fossil fuel. Corn fuel steals food and increases the cost of food for the people. If CO2 from fossil fuels stays in the atmosphere "100 years" as the enviros claim, the CO2 from corn fuel will also stay in the atmosphere for 100 years. Corn fuel is less dense energy than fossil fuel which means it requires more corn fuel to release the same energy as fossil fuel.
Please excuse the use of fossil fuel as a term. Oil as we know it is not fossil fuel. Evidence abounds in the universe that these so-called fossil fuels are abiotic in source. If hydrocarbons come from living organisms, then life must be everywhere since we find HC on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter and in asteroids and stars.
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