An end run on ethanol

[YankeyMCC]

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As President Bush promotes ethanol as a green alternative to gasoline, his administration is quietly relaxing environmental rules for dozens of new corn-to-fuel refineries sprouting up across the nation.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is planning to change the way ethanol plants are treated under the Clean Air Act, a move critics say could make it easier for the burgeoning industry to evade controls that dramatically reduce toxic air pollution.
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EPA regulators had decided to take a closer look at the refineries after following complaints about noxious odors add1: coming from several ethanol plants in the Midwest. The agency discovered many were emitting carbon monoxide, methanol and cancer-causing chemicals at levels far greater than the owners had reported.
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Farm-state lawmakers, led by U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), argue that the new rule is needed to remove "considerable administrative burdens" that can add costly construction delays for new and expanded ethanol plants.
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My Comment: Reply to Thune - That's the fracking cost of doing business. The people have put a price on the impact of the commons and requirements for protecting those commons (like the fracking AIR WE BREATH!).


More at: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/custom/newsroom/chi-061015ethanol,1,1803092.story?page=1&ctrack=1&cset=true

[whistle]

1. Ethanol as a substitute or even an additive to gasoline is a scam

...that will suck billions of dollars in subsidies from the Federal Energy budget and still allow oil companies to price gouge consumers at the pumps.

[Javaman]

2. Ethanol; the fools paradice...

all this bullshit will hit the fan in a few years and by that time, moron* hopefully will have been revealed to the nation as the lying sack of shit he* is.

However, up until that point, he* will be saying, "I* was the one that got the
alter-NA-tive fuels going, no one else, it was me*, I* had forethought, that's when you see something that's...thinking about something ahead..."

I hate that stupid fuck*