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Fatman

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Foolish, so is reduction in gas tax. The move is to increase the gas tax


across a coalition of US, EU, Japan..maybe even China, and then offer a resumption of the monthly checks Trump was sending out during COVID to offset impact to low-income drivers. The goal would be to push people to carpool, buy more efficient cars, etc without harming vulnerable parts of society.

Ethanol is just pandering to midwestern states that grow corn and their lobby. It is bad policy.

In good news, Japan is resuming Nuke operations to reduce dependency on Russia/OPEC+. US/EU should be on nuke as well as solar/wind and treat that like the National Security issue it is.

US Domestic oil production seems very slow to respond to higher prices after Putin/OPEC+ put so many out of business, so I think this needs to be attacked on the demand side of the equation to bring it under control as US producers seem unable to provide short-term relief.

This is a huge mess, but one would hope the West will see this as exposing a massive national security issue and not let this crisis go to waste, reducing gas taxes and talking about Ethanol is just incredibly foolish responses.

(In response to this post by reconhokie)

Posted: 04/12/2022 at 10:57AM



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Bring on the clean E15! -- reconhokie 04/12/2022 09:14AM
  Horrible idea. Unnecessary. ** -- HokieSignGuy 04/12/2022 11:33AM
  Midwest farmers disagree ** -- Hokie Chris 04/12/2022 11:58AM
  Or just fire your horrible decision makers. ** -- reconhokie 04/12/2022 2:22PM
  It's not 1-for-1 in terms of energy/unit weight or volume -- Hokie Chris 04/12/2022 11:58AM
  All good points... -- `lag 04/12/2022 12:05PM
  Ethanol does have a lower energy density -- Hokie Chris 04/12/2022 12:21PM
  If the US EPA says it’s bad for the environment- -- reconhokie 04/12/2022 2:34PM
  Yeah, devil's in the details. -- `lag 04/12/2022 12:42PM
  Here's some links from the DOE I found interesting -- Hokie Chris 04/12/2022 3:23PM
  The newest fad, "poop soda!" -- EDGEMAN 04/12/2022 12:50PM
  The CO2 from the ethanol factories is really clean -- Hokie Chris 04/12/2022 1:09PM
  So which is worse? ** -- reconhokie 04/12/2022 3:04PM
  The end goal is to make beef too expensive? ** -- typed by ben 04/12/2022 12:28PM
  Just one of the goals. -- EDGEMAN 04/12/2022 12:48PM
  I’m fairly certain those studies have been done… -- vthokieq 04/12/2022 09:50AM
  Ugh! This needs to be stopped NOW! ** -- EDGEMAN 04/12/2022 09:19AM
  Which is it? 2007 or 2010? ** -- typed by ben 04/12/2022 09:39AM
  Maybe you are thinking of E85 ** -- typed by ben 04/12/2022 10:19AM
  And mowers- ** -- bigbadbird 04/12/2022 09:21AM

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