Thanks for writing Mike. On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 3:22 PM MS <[email protected]> wrote:
> ... Based on my experience along with what I've read over the years, > there's not any doubt that ethanol decreases efficiency in at least my > combustion engines. I assume my engines are similar to everyone else's. > Could be wrong. > Your experience is a sample size of 1. That makes it unreliable anecdotal evidence instead of scientific evidence. Don't forget to read the linked info I provided. Much of the science is coming not from some corn association but reputable labs like Oakridge. > From all the data I've ever read, it seems abundantly clear ethanol is a > huge scam perpetrated upon the American public in order to subsidize > farmers who should be using America's rich farmland for growing quality > crops instead of ethanol. > Again, intelligent corn farming is still using most of what they are growing as cattle feed. I agree with you that stupid farming ought to change. Currently, corn is sprayed with desiccants to dry it out before harvest. It doesn't need to be. It ought not be dried out and used as forage or silage. Some will also argue that good arable land is wasted growing corn to feed cattle. Humans eating beef is a very inefficient use of petroleum fertilizers and fuels. I am not arguing against eating beef. I don't eat a lot of it, but I enjoy it and eat it. I am arguing that ethanol is an excellent fuel for engines that are built for it. Even engines that are built for gasoline do well with mid level quantities of ethanol. That is the science. Again read my links and tell me how they are fake, inaccurate, etc. > And not alfalfa. Alfalfa is about the highest - perhaps the highest - > water intensive crop that can be grown, this in light of the U.S.'s > increasing water shortage, both in the West and the midwest (where they are > draining their aquifers down to the bottom). > There is a lot of stupid farming in the central valley of California. Huge amounts of acreage converted to almond orchards. It takes a gallon or two of water to produce one almond. Most of the almonds produced in California are exported to Asia. Agriculture gets 80% of California's water and we are committing that water to China in the form of almonds, rice, other nuts, etc. Stupid. If only I could be king I would straighten these unfortunate situations out > . . .* [image: Emoji].* > I have been informed not to get political on this list, but since you started it 😜 ... One of my favorite quotes is from Lord Acton. We have all heard the first sentence of it. But the second sentence is even better: "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority." Source: https://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/165acton.html Lord Acton makes the point that power is corrupting. Nobody should be made the king to straighten things out. We need better educated voters and a robust democratic republic. We need people solving problems and either selling or sharing those solutions.
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