re: Why are we still using ethanol in our gasoline?

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Because the corn industry needs alternative markets. We really do not eat much of the supply. Most of it goes to feed for animals

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Not doubting what you’re saying, because I’ve seen 100’s of similar examples over the years, and shite like this is a big part of why this country is approaching $40 trillion in debt.

Guess what corn industry? If there’s no market for your product then find another way to make a living just like any other normal citizen would be forced to do. shite like this is maddening to me.

Farm rent in my town went from $30 an acre to almost $200 and acre in about 3 years in the early 2000s. Now corporations are buying the land and I would guess some of the new land owners are either Wall Street or foreign owners,

Wheat, sorghum, sunflowers aren’t farmed anymore. It’s corn or soybeans, suspect land is now drained contributing to run off and flooding.

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To destroy small engines and bring agony to people like me.

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1. Buy VP Racing fuel cans
2. Buy ethanol-free gasoline
3. ???????
4. Profit

I actually worked in a corn processing plant in Illinois almost 30 years ago. We weren’t a massive place and we were grinding around 120 million bushel of corn a year. When you hit the Illinois state line, it’s nothing but corn fields for hours. If you’ve never been all they way up I-55 it’s hard to imagine that much corn anywhere.

Buy a Diesel. Better fuel economy and the engine will outlast the desire to own the vehicle. For those who say it's more polluting the diesel vehicles can go 2 years between inspection stickers in ozone non attainment parishes like EBR. I was shocked to learn this when the guy told me I was good for 2 years.

The diesels are actually cleaner he said.

Buy ethanol free for your small engines, side by sides, etc.

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Iowa primaries are early so corn subsidies are the third rail of American politics.

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Ted Cruz won Iowa in 2016 while campaigning against big corn and ethanol gas.

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With that said it would be a fantastic place to live if the fishing were better.

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Heavy snowfall is really pretty.

For one day.

The crap kills an internal combustion engine. And takes 3 X more energy to produce. Don't ever run that stuff in any small engine. If you want it to last more than a couple of years. It's nothing but a money grab by product of the corn lobby.

The winter isn’t that bad when you compare how awesome the summers are. Diversity is also not a strength in Iowa which seems to positively affect pretty much every thing else. I’m headed to Louisiana tomorrow to take my boys fishing for four days which is the highlight of our year and we do it every year. Iowa is literally Mayberry but the fishing is awful which kills me. My property tax is also close to $15k a year and the state income tax sucks but it seems to keep out the undesirables. My car insurance and home owners is extremely cheap so I guess it all washes. I got my parents a place up here and they only go back for 2-3 months a year and absolutely love it up here. It’s boring but you don’t have to worry with many of the things in Louisiana. I still love my home state and miss it all the time but I’m not sure I could live there again unless I retired in Grand Isle or something but I’m leaning more towards Fort Myers.