Showing posts with label Ethanol. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ethanol. Show all posts
Friday, August 1, 2014

It takes a nation to stockpile this much ethanol. No lie. It literally takes a nation. Find out which one here.

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US ethanol stocks soar to 16-month high: EIA US ethanol stocks rose 647,000 barrels to a 16-month high of 18.587 million barrels in the w...
Wednesday, June 18, 2014

How many football fields worth of corn did we use everyday last week to produce the surge in ethanol production? We're gonna need a bigger stadium...

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Saw this and of course had to do some calculating.  You know how much hatin' I do on ethanol. U.S. ethanol output surges to record hig...
Thursday, August 16, 2012

There is a scourge 3 times larger than the drought affecting food prices. See it here in one easy chart...

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The drought of the summer of 2012 is expected to result in the loss of 13% of the corn corp. This is widely reported as a disaster in need o...
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Thursday, August 9, 2012

Food prices increasing? It is that #%*^&^& Ethanol policy! See chart here for the damage. Paging Frederic Bastiat!!

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Congress has mandated (not asked, not requested) that the nation produce 13.3 Billion gallons of ethanol to be an additive to fuel.  Big Pic...
Thursday, August 2, 2012

Unintended but predictable consequence of the Ethanol Mandate...

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Source: Carpe Diem
Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Two nice graphics showing energy consumption by source. We are failing...

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Reality Check.  As much as I would like the us to move to a cleaner and less political (by political I mean we dont have to go to war or mai...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Timely validation of my lecture yesteday on Lefties teaming with Righties on the issue of Ethanol...Not so much patting myself on the back as affirming I am not crazy... :)

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This is the second time in two days I get validation of my rants against ethanol subsidies.  This is one issue that elements on the Left A...
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

The cost of the Ethanol Mandate is not chicken feed....The Federal Government is bailing out chicken producers because the price of chicken feed is increasing---because of the Federal Ethanol Mandate. Does anyone else think this is kind of crazy???

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How timely. Today in class I used the ethanol mandate as a way to illustrate Frederic Bastiat's "Seen and the Unseen " and the...
Saturday, January 22, 2011

Graph of Corn used for Ethanol as a percentage of US corn production---posted with no comment...none needed...

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WSJ  using US Dept of Agriculture Data
Sunday, December 12, 2010

Ok, rationality has left the building--to pass a tax bill that increases the deficit, Senate leadership offers incentives to reluctant Senators that will, well, increase the deficit...Will it ever end?

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Why, oh, why does it have to be ethanol.  It is the one subsidy that has widespread support from the left and right to get rid of.  If they ...
Wednesday, October 13, 2010

#%#&#t^*(&# BLASTED Ethanol!! We are about to get more of it for our cars! That means less corn for food...I apologize in advance to all you starving people on "The Margin".

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A nice example of interest group politics intersecting with economics.  Two interest groups (Farm Lobby and an ethanol lobby (fronted by a f...
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