It was supposed to be the fuel that could wean, at least partially, the United States and other petroleum importing countries from their dependence on foreign oil.....
http://fuelfix.com/blog/2011/05/13/corn ... real-cost/
Corn-based Ethanol: The Real Cost
Corn-based Ethanol: The Real Cost
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That article really misses the real reason that our corn based ethanol is hurting us.
The root cause of this goes back to the Nixon days (early 1970s), and the USDA and their new rules of controlling "bumper crops". A relationship between corn growers and the gov't soon formed...grew again in the early Reagan years is the related topic of the "sugar tariff", and our taxes started paying for a substantial portion of yellow corn in a lot of "save the farmers" movements. Google "Archer Daniels Midland (ADM)". Our taxes pay for almost 50% of their products. Hence the clout of corn based products, such as corn syrup. We're stuck in the rut of paying farmers to grow yellow corn (inedible corn)..and finding ways to use it...because we have to use that yellow corn, and stifling competition to it....such as other ways of making sugar based products (and sugar based ethanol like Brazil makes..which is 6 times more efficient than our corn based ...and much less expensive). Spend some time Googling on Brazils sugar based ethanol..versus ours. Why don't we try the more efficient sugar based method of making ethanol? Because the whole system of gov't subsidizing (well..actually...we the taxpayers) yellow corn growers and industry won't let us, we have to use yellow corn (that we already paid for once...but we'll pay for again at the pump)
The root cause of this goes back to the Nixon days (early 1970s), and the USDA and their new rules of controlling "bumper crops". A relationship between corn growers and the gov't soon formed...grew again in the early Reagan years is the related topic of the "sugar tariff", and our taxes started paying for a substantial portion of yellow corn in a lot of "save the farmers" movements. Google "Archer Daniels Midland (ADM)". Our taxes pay for almost 50% of their products. Hence the clout of corn based products, such as corn syrup. We're stuck in the rut of paying farmers to grow yellow corn (inedible corn)..and finding ways to use it...because we have to use that yellow corn, and stifling competition to it....such as other ways of making sugar based products (and sugar based ethanol like Brazil makes..which is 6 times more efficient than our corn based ...and much less expensive). Spend some time Googling on Brazils sugar based ethanol..versus ours. Why don't we try the more efficient sugar based method of making ethanol? Because the whole system of gov't subsidizing (well..actually...we the taxpayers) yellow corn growers and industry won't let us, we have to use yellow corn (that we already paid for once...but we'll pay for again at the pump)
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