Another Clueless Ethanol Supporter

Of all the ethanol articles I've read, this one is probably the most ignorant I've ever seen.

For example, this silly, misguided elitist person talks down to people in Tennessee, saying they need more ethanol education there because gas station owners were marketing gas that had no ethanol in it.

She asks this meaningless question: "So how does a fuel like ethanol remain a fuel choice for more than 100 years if it is so harmful? If that were the case, than how has oil remained a fuel choice for more than 100 years?"

The 100 year nonsense is a reference to her saying Model T's from long ago used ethanol in them. I wonder how many operating Model T's survived that disastrous practice.

Also pointed out is the assertion E15 is the most tested fuel in American history. So what? Those very tests have found that E15 does do damage to many cars. Testing it is irrelevant. The results of those test are what count, and E15 is a disaster by any metric.

Even E10 is a disaster, as it has done enormous damage to all sorts of machinery using small engines; including lawn mowers, chainsaws, and even snowmobiles, among many others.

She makes it sound like people want ethanol in their cars and other machinery. It's not true whatsoever. Americans are forced to use ethanol by law, and if it was taken out of the market tomorrow, only a few goofy, radical environmentalists would care.

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ADM (NYSE:ADM) Pressing for 12 Percent Ethanol Mandate

Archer Daniels Midland (NYSE:ADM) is pressuring the Environmental Protection Agency to approve an increase in the blend of ethanol and gasoline to 12 percent, as they attempt to take advantage of the forced increase to generate revenue and profits for the company.

Supposedly the introduction of a 12 percent ethanol blend would help make the alternative fuel more available, although there really isn't a big demand for it, and probably wouldn't exist if it wasn't for government subsidies, which need to be dropped.

The ethanol ADM makes is from corn, which is extremely hard on the environment and opposed by people and groups of all persuasions.

This is an attempt by Archer Daniels Midland to use the current oil spill to push the use of alternative fuels, more for the purpose of generate strong earnings because of the fall of corn prices than anything else.