I heard something on the radio yesterday that I just couldn’t believe. I was listening to a “money” talk-show and the guy said that there is a 40% tariff on Brazilian ethanol. Please tell me that you guys aren’t taxing the best and least expensive ethanol in the world at an additional rate of 40% after MANDATING that at least 10% of our fuel be ethanol at a time when gas prices are approaching $4.00 per gallon and our economy is grinding to a halt!
If you are, then I’ve got to ask, WHY?!
Who is this supposed to help? You mandate ethanol use and then you turn right around and effectively prohibit the sale of the least expensive and highest quality ethanol in the world here in the US?
Again, who is this ethanol initiative supposed to help? It sure doesn’t help me at the gas pump. Turning a staple food source into fuel sure isn’t good for the starving children of the world. It’s not even good for the environment! (US ethanol production actually increases our total CO2 output and even our total fossil fuel consumption.)
OK, I know who it’s supposed to help. There is only one group in this country that benefits from this and that’s the ethanol producers and, by extension, corn farmers.
Please repeal this unethical tariff.
Better yet, reverse course on this whole immoral ethanol initiative.
August 25, 2012
Today was a good day. I found a new source for ethanol-free gas. Now I can buy that chainsaw that I’ve been wanting. You see, I decided not to buy any more gasoline powered tools until I found a source for ethanol-free gas because I knew that the ethanol that’s in the gas now would just eat them up. I’ve lost 3 lawn mowers, 2 line trimmers and a chainsaw to that junk! I wonder if all the environmentalists figured all that smoke that billowed out of each of these tools as they burned up into their fancy equations?
What am I saying? Everyone knows that ethanol isn’t really being produced and mixed into the nation’s fuel supply for environmental reasons. There are no sound environmental reasons to do that. Everyone knows that it takes more fuel and produces more pollution to produce a gallon of ethanol than is saved by it’s use at its eventual destination. Even the environmentalists have moved on. We all know why we are being forced to sacrifice our lawn equipment and pay higher food prices at the grocery store: It is called corruption.
Come on guys! I’d be embarrassed if I was you. This is not going unnoticed. It has become one of the most glaring signposts of the corrupt times in which we live.
Oh, what I’d give for the good old days when corruption was too complicated and obscure for us dummies back home to notice it.
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