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E85 on its way out???
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<blockquote data-quote="REX-RACER" data-source="post: 11406225" data-attributes="member: 14222"><p>Hence the argument that ethanol in the US is produced from the wrong base crop. Ethanol isn't the problem, it's the fact that it's produced from an subsidized and subsequently over produced resource. As several people have pointed out here, in Brazil they're not having this problem b/c they're ethanol production isn't tied to a wack farm subsidy. They're also much more flexible about which base crops they use and switch between sugar cane, sugar beets, switch grass, etc. </p><p></p><p>Here in the US we seem to have our needle irrevocably stuck on corn. Partially b/c of the corn subsidy which radically skews the market but I also believe there's some hangover from the "moon shine" era though that's just speculation on my part. Unfortunately all of this stubbornness and intractability looks like it may possibly kill off the source of alternative fuel even though there is several case examples such as Venezuela and Brazil that show this is a completely viable energy source.</p><p></p><p>Of course we're Americans so we have to do it "our way", even if "our way" is wrong. :bored:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="REX-RACER, post: 11406225, member: 14222"] Hence the argument that ethanol in the US is produced from the wrong base crop. Ethanol isn't the problem, it's the fact that it's produced from an subsidized and subsequently over produced resource. As several people have pointed out here, in Brazil they're not having this problem b/c they're ethanol production isn't tied to a wack farm subsidy. They're also much more flexible about which base crops they use and switch between sugar cane, sugar beets, switch grass, etc. Here in the US we seem to have our needle irrevocably stuck on corn. Partially b/c of the corn subsidy which radically skews the market but I also believe there's some hangover from the "moon shine" era though that's just speculation on my part. Unfortunately all of this stubbornness and intractability looks like it may possibly kill off the source of alternative fuel even though there is several case examples such as Venezuela and Brazil that show this is a completely viable energy source. Of course we're Americans so we have to do it "our way", even if "our way" is wrong. :bored: [/QUOTE]
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