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Ethanol, a non renewable resource.
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Posted 3/18/2018 21:49 (#6650552 - in reply to #6649536)
Subject: RE: Ethanol, a non renewable resource.



Leesburg, Ohio		Just because corn does not plant itself, does not mean corn or ethanol os not a renewable resource.

A resource that is not renewable is one that has a finite supply, and gets "used up" over time.

We can, and do, create a new supply of corn, and ethanol, every growing season. Yes, each year's crop gets used up, but we can make more right away. There is only so much coal, only so much oil, only so much gas. Coal, oil, and gas are NOT renewable, by definition. Corn is a renewable resource, by any reasonable definition.


Regarding subsidies, the military could certainly be considered, in part, a subsidy for oil. Wind and solar are definately subisdized. Ethanol has not has any subsidy connected with it in years.


Regarding a mandate, I suppose you can say there is a mandate for ethanol to be blended in gasoline, but it was done to force oil companies to use it in place of methanol/mtbe, which was poluting ground water.

Mandate or not, is it not better to use ethanol and thereby put millions of dollars back in our own rural communities and back in the pockets of local farm families and the families of farm communities, instead of putting those millions in the bank account of some mega-rich sheik over in the sand???
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