North Central US | IN555 - 4/11/2026 10:24
We all get it, you don't like ethanol. We really don't give a rats ass. Move along and bring something useful to the forum.
Why? So you can get back to "let's mandate E15 so I can buy another Ford F350 Limited 4 door long box", "Where's my government check so I can buy another boat", "oil is too cheap now so I can't sell my corn and buy a new set of snowmobiles and a vacation 1,100 miles away in western Montana or Wyoming", and other riveting conventions that are repeated week after week on Market Talk?
I've been told ethanol is cheap, ethanol is plentiful, you have to be stupid not to use it, every farmer everywhere has no reason not to, that I am a liar and a traitor when I say it makes no sense outside the corn belt. Welcome to the reality of ethanol, one gas station chain with high priced E85 covering an area the size of Indiana, competing with 30 others selling regular gas.
I've got to sit by and watch ethanol stumble around like a drunk and fall on its face time and time again, hoping that by the time genetics improved enough it would get its self together, but no, here we are 20 year later, the genetics are here and ethanol and half the farmers who grow for it are still baffled on why it hasn't taken off. Well here you go. This is reality for most of the country.
Reality isn't always pretty, like how you still somehow have a 6 person family living in a camper the size of a pickup, or a slightly larger apartment for $2,000 a month where father is on the rigs, mother drives truck, the two oldest children work at the grocery stores and the others are left on their own, and they barely scrape by, all to move the oil a mile over then a mile straight up and to a refinery a few hundred if not thousand miles away to make the diesel you use thousands of gallons of a year and they don't complain when oil goes down and they have to pack up and move across the country again for the 8th time.
Don't like it? Then call your checkoffs, your corn associations, the the ethanol organizations, ask them what they've been doing the last 20 years. I'd like to know. |
Did some traveling today, $3.29 for E85.
