Comments on: Ethanol Reduced Gas Prices by $1.09/gal. – Or Didn’t You Notice?

By: Brain Valentine

Brain Valentine — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 02:36:54 +0000

ha ha ha this idiot assumes Ethanol is “free” in his cost “savings” hah hah hah

The junk is five bucks a gallon when you take away the Government artificial respiration this thing lives on

By: Dr. James H. Rust

Dr. James H. Rust — Sat, 19 May 2012 00:27:03 +0000

ethanol from corn is so foolish you could write a book about it. Even environmentalists have given up on it because it adds to atmospheric carbon dioxide.

In 2011, five billion bushels of corn was converted to twelve billion gallons of ethanol which caused the wholesale price of corn to rise to $7 per bushel against $2.50 a few years earlier. Much research shows it requires more energy to make ethanol than is contained in the product. The situation will get worse in the future because of mandates from the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act to use 35 billion gallons of ethanol as fuel by 2022. Wikipedia states a 2010 study by the U. S. Congressional Budget Office found the cost to taxpayers to replace one gallon of gasoline with ethanol was $1.78.

The whole country suffers because of food price inflation due to this program. Some policy experts speculated increased worldwide corn prices may have been the primary cause of the Arab Spring uprisings that started January 2011 due to starvation-level food prices.

By: CEI Podcast for May 17, 2012: Ethanol’s Overstated Benefits

CEI Podcast for May 17, 2012: Ethanol’s Overstated Benefits — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:06:42 +0000

[...] Energy, Ethanol, Podcast Tweet Have a listen here.Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis takes apart a study claiming that ethanol lowers gas prices by more than a dollar per gallon in some regions. [...]

By: CEI Podcast for May 17, 2012: Ethanol’s Overstated Benefits | Inertia Wins!

Thu, 17 May 2012 18:54:23 +0000

[...] Fellow Marlo Lewis takes apart a study claiming that ethanol lowers gas prices by more than a dollar per gallon in some regions. [...]

By: May 17, 2012: Ethanol’s Overstated Benefits | Liberty Week

May 17, 2012: Ethanol’s Overstated Benefits | Liberty Week — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:41:40 +0000

[...] Fellow Marlo Lewis takes apart a study claiming that ethanol lowers gas prices by as much as a dollar per gallon in some regions. [...]

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 17 May 2012 15:40:05 +0000

That’s great. Now that ethanol is so competitive, I’m sure CARD will now advocate that we eliminate the ethanol mandate.

By: Ethanol – Academics and Reality | CommonOil.com

Ethanol – Academics and Reality | CommonOil.com — Thu, 17 May 2012 12:06:17 +0000

[...] A Bad Model: This analysis is deeply flawed as it relies on an out-of-date model that doesn’t reflect current markets. Beginning in January 2010, the U.S. became a net exporter of ethanol. This is a critical structural change in the U.S. ethanol industry. However, this aspect is not included in the report’s econometric model. This is a serious omission and doesn’t accurately reflect ethanol’s impact. The authors indicate that: “…U.S. prices are lower than EU prices by an amount equal to transportation costs. In context a $1.09 per gallon marginal impact for 2011 seems reasonable.” However, transportation costs on gasoline have been typically only pennies per gallon, and stating that $1.09 is “reasonable” does not pass the red-face test. As Marlo Lewis notes: [...]

By: Marlo Lewis: Ethanol Reduced Gas Prices by $1.09/g – Or Didn’t You Notice? | JunkScience.com

Thu, 17 May 2012 11:44:28 +0000

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By: BobRGeologist

BobRGeologist — Thu, 17 May 2012 06:30:13 +0000

I have never been a supporter of turning food grains into alcohol, which produces little benefit in reducing CO2 in our atmosphere and less miles per gallon than pure gasoline. Also is the fact that AGW is a figment of Enviro’s imagination. A study of ancient climates has shown that when atmospheric CO2 was 20 times greater than today, it did not produce dangerous to life levels of warming. With permanent ice in our polar regions today, we are far more likely to lapse into another major continental ice age than become too warm. Without a robust greenhouse gas to trap heat from our sometimes weak sun, that becomes a distinct possibility.