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Have you commented on EPA ethanol proposal?

Bamby

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The National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA) is asking boaters to contact the Environmental Protection Agency and voice their support of a proposal to reduce the requirement for higher concentrations of ethanol in the nation’s gasoline fuel supply. The feedback deadline is January 28.

In November, the EPA announced its proposal to modify the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) and to reduce the amount of ethanol required to be blended into the nation’s fuel supply.

To make it easier for boaters to create and send a message to the EPA, the NMMA has set up a special page, which you can connect to by clicking here.

“We already know that the ethanol and corn lobbies are submitting thousands of comments,” the NMMA says. “We can’t sit on the sidelines. It’s time to take action and let the EPA know that you want lower ethanol mandates in 2014.”

A canned comment in support is as easy as filling out a form and clicking.
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Note: Though the above is a boating site at least it is a site that you can register your displeasure in burning more corn. Corn is already costing consumers enough already at it present level let alone increasing it another 5%. If you've had enough corn already spend a moment or two to let them know your opinion...
 

300 H and H

Bronze Member
GOLD Site Supporter
From a corn farmer this is yet another example of the lack of common sence of the current administration. We are no longer short of corn in the USA and the price is now just above the cost of production. Where the hell were they in the last two years when corn was nearly twice the price it is now??? We have 1.8 billion bushels of it from the 2013 crop that as of now doesn't have a home. Land prices are already starting to decline. Willey Nelson fire up your farm aid buss! We are going to have another farm crisis here...

This might have made sence in the last 24 months, but now I just fear it is big oil companies who have helped with electing the slimey one, and now it is pay back time. Understand large oil companies are going to contribute to who ever is in control at a givin time, cause they don't care about politics. They are soley after a much bigger prize, your money.... and your dependance on them soley for your fuel. They don't want or like the competition, and they will do anything to end it.

So do what you want, but understand who you are doing it to, and for what reason. Thanks Bambi, not hard to figure out what side of the fence you are standing on. Help EPA beat us down, and destroy the Ag economy.... We really appreciate it..

Regards, Kirk
 
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FrancSevin

Proudly Deplorable
GOLD Site Supporter
From a corn farmer this is yet another example of the lack of common sence of the current administration. We are no longer short of corn in the USA and the price is now just above the cost of production. Where the hell were they in the last two years when corn was nearly twice the price it is now??? We have 1.8 billion bushels of it from the 2013 crop that as of now doesn't have a home. Land prices are already starting to decline. Willey Nelson fire up your farm aid buss! We are going to have another farm crisis here...

This might have made sence in the last 24 months, but now I just fear it is big oil companies who have helped with electing the slimey one, and now it is pay back time. Understand large oil companies are going to contribute to who ever is in control at a givin time, cause they don't care about politics. They are soley after a much bigger prize, your money.... and your dependance on them soley for your fuel. They don't want or like the competition, and they will do anything to end it.

So do what you want, but understand who you are doing it to, and for what reason. Thanks Bambi, not hard to figure out what side of the fence you are standing on. Help EPA beat us down, and destroy the Ag economy.... We really appreciate it..

Regards, Kirk

Excuse me Kirk but arable land prices in IOWA were beyond realistic. The bubble has burst, as it always does in agriculture when a commodity is over produced. Same as in speculative housing,

Can you say Wheat futures in the 20's?


The EPA and other regulatory agencies ruin market forces by placing politics above everything when they put their ideological thumb on the scale. I believe you are suggesting the government mandate purchase of your product. Not exactly free enterprise.


Oil companies win either way here. They get to charge at the pump to make their margins. And they charge whatever it takes whether it is Iranian crude or beet juice going into the refinery to make a sellable product.Mandate ETOH and they are fine with it. Because consumers need to get to work and do not have a choice. That constant is a done deal for some time to come.

What is different today is that for the first time in some 50 years, the USA is relatively independent of foreign oil feed stocks for it's energy and petroleum based chemicals. This thanks to fracking and oil shales. And this fact is driving the greenies insane.
 

Mark.Sibole

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EPA Egotistical Pushy Assholes
To many govt created crisises.
EPA is another one like the IRS that needs to be abolished.
 

FrancSevin

Proudly Deplorable
GOLD Site Supporter
Responding to the EPA or any lobby that might try to challenge them is a complete waste of time and energy.
Their agenda is set and the blinders are on. They will follow their mandate which currently is to foil any attempt at responsible regulation. It has not been about clean air and water for some time now. Unhindered hindrance of our economic system is the new mission.

The end game is control and power.
 

Kane

New member
From a corn farmer this is yet another example of the lack of common sence of the current administration. We are no longer short of corn in the USA and the price is now just above the cost of production. Where the hell were they in the last two years when corn was nearly twice the price it is now??? We have 1.8 billion bushels of it from the 2013 crop that as of now doesn't have a home. Land prices are already starting to decline. Willey Nelson fire up your farm aid buss! We are going to have another farm crisis here...

This might have made sence in the last 24 months, but now I just fear it is big oil companies who have helped with electing the slimey one, and now it is pay back time. Understand large oil companies are going to contribute to who ever is in control at a givin time, cause they don't care about politics. They are soley after a much bigger prize, your money.... and your dependance on them soley for your fuel. They don't want or like the competition, and they will do anything to end it.

So do what you want, but understand who you are doing it to, and for what reason. Thanks Bambi, not hard to figure out what side of the fence you are standing on. Help EPA beat us down, and destroy the Ag economy.... We really appreciate it..

Regards, Kirk
I recall the rediculous price being asked for farm land back in the late 60's. - $1,200 an acre. Crazy numbers. Then along came the oil embargoes and the recession of 72. Prices dropped, farmers that leveraged land for big ass new tractors and combines lost grampa's farm.

And now that Iowa is finally recovering from 1972, they're doing it all over again. Big AgriBizness loves you.
 
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