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We need to stop the enormously stupid ethanol requirements in gasoline, and corn subsidies to produce them.

• toomuchtodo 2y ago
  43 million acres of land are farmed for ethanol. Key political positions depend on the corn and ag lobby support, including Iowa. We won’t remove these subsidies, we’ll only destroy demand with rapid EV uptake that destroys gasoline demand for light vehicles (and the ethanol blended into it). https://www.cardin.senate.gov/press-releases/end-subsidies-for-corn-based-ethanol/ https://www.cardin.senate.gov/press-releases/end-subsidies-f... https://www.taxpayer.net/energy-natural-resources/understanding-u-s-corn-ethanol-and-other-corn-based-biofuels-subsidies/ https://www.taxpayer.net/energy-natural-resources/understand... https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/laws/ETH?state=US https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/laws/ETH?state=US
  • exabrial 2y ago
    progress, not perfection. Chip at it one bit at a time.
    • toomuchtodo 2y ago
      Certainly, I’m just saying that if the thought is the change is going to happen on the policy side, that is unlikely due to entrenched self interested parties and US governance having mostly failed. Think in systems. If you are attempting to force them to failure, find the weakest points and exert maximum force at those points.
    • TylerE 2y ago
      That’s one of the easiest bits to chip off, though. There is zero technical or environmental reason to do it (and quite a few not to).
      • exabrial 2y ago
        To stop ethanol production?
• kickout 2y ago
  Agree, but from a political standpoint it's cheap. The subsidies are overall not expensive and it's good to incentivize over production of crops from a nation security standpoint. Below comments are correct, EVs will ultimately be the equalizer