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Louisiana Light • 2 days | 87.12 | +0.03 | +0.03% | ||
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Bonny Light • 21 hours | 88.87 | +0.67 | +0.76% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 86.51 | -1.01 | -1.15% | ||
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Mars US • 172 days | 77.26 | -1.51 | -1.92% | ||
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Gasoline • 10 mins | 2.722 | -0.004 | -0.13% |
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Bonny Light • 21 hours | 88.87 | +0.67 | +0.76% | ||
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Girassol • 21 hours | 89.45 | +0.81 | +0.91% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 86.51 | -1.01 | -1.15% |
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Peace Sour • 20 hours | 75.10 | -0.32 | -0.42% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 20 hours | 78.15 | -0.32 | -0.41% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 20 hours | 85.10 | -0.32 | -0.37% | ||
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Central Alberta • 20 hours | 75.50 | -0.32 | -0.42% |
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Eagle Ford • 2 days | 79.33 | -0.29 | -0.36% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 5 days | 79.75 | +0.50 | +0.63% | ||
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Kansas Common • 2 days | 73.00 | -0.50 | -0.68% | ||
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Buena Vista • 5 days | 87.31 | +0.41 | +0.47% |
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New Report Finds US Ethanol Mandate is Destroying the Environment
In 2005, ex-President George W. Bush signed the Energy Policy Act which included the Renewable Fuels Standard, requiring oil companies to add ethanol to their gasoline, and whilst running for presidency in 2007 Barack Obama positioned corn ethanol as one of the pillars for his proposed plan to combat global warming. It was believed that corn ethanol would help to reduce carbon emissions from burning gasoline, and also help to reduce the US’s demand for imported crude oil to make gasoline.
But an investigation carried out by the Associated Press, has discovered that ethanol is actually damaging to the environment on a level much more severe than the government is willing to admit.
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Farmers, who rushed to plant more corn in order to take advantage of the artificial demand created by the ethanol mandate, cleared millions of acres of protected land, destroying habitats and polluting local water supplies. Al Jazeera America wrote that since Obama took office five million acres of land have been converted from conservational land to corn farming, more than the combined area of Yellowstone, Yosemite and the Everglades national parks.
Corn farming in Iowa has replaced the traditional hilly, grassy landscape. 
On top of this destruction of habitat comes the vast use of nitrogen based fertilizer, which the Associated Press say increased by over a billion pounds from 2005 to 2010, and estimate has increased by another billion pounds to the present day.
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Some of that fertilizer has seeped into the water table, contaminating rivers, and eventually flowing into the Gulf of Mexico where it encouraged the growth of huge algae fields. When the algae eventually dies and decomposes it removes all of the oxygen from the sea, leaving behind a huge zone where no life can exist. 5,800 square miles of the sea floor in the Gulf are now covered by this huge dead zone bereft of life.
The Dead Zone at the mouth of the Mississippi River.
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Officials from the Department of Agriculture claims that the main reason for the reduction of conserved land is not corn farming, but the fact that Congress has decreased the amount of land allowed to be conserved. It also claims that the amount of fertilizer used over last decade has remained steady, and therefore ethanol production has not been responsible for any fertilizer boom.
By. James Burgess of Oilprice.com
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Only Washington and it's lobbyists could support such a damaging program in the name of "energy independence", a promise made and broken by every president for 50 years.
We know big business can cut checks for hundreds of thousands of dollars to position congressman to favor corn production for ethanol. The regular folks are lucky if they can handle an extra $20 for a reelection campaign. That answers the question as to why the folks eat dirt shoveled by congress.
The EPA is busy doing the illegitimate presidents bidding killing the coal industry, wiping out Federal Oil production leases and ending the last Lead producing plant in the US by inducing mandates impossible to meet. Congress is as usual ineffective and complacent while the citizen suffers with an impending and for many "deadly" Obamacare act.
It is not unusual that the EPA isn't demanding a stop to ethanol because it is a liberal cause regardless of the fact it is damaging the environment. The liberal hypocrisy and lunacy knows knows no bounds. Take Obamacare for example, they taut the ability of this imbecilic idea to keep your "adult children to age 26" on the parents insurance when at the same time wooing the young to get on Obamacare who are crucial to the success of this incredibly ignorant, deadly to many and inept adventure in total control of the US populace.
As it is the nation now most infected w/GMO organisms of all types and kinds, so shall the USSA [not a typo] be the first to suffer a meta-catastrophe when they collapse in a cascade of unforeseen consequences. So it goes, eh?
When I graduated HS in 1960 the Great New Thing was the 'Green Revolution', which was going to revolutionise farming and at long last feed the world. Uh huh.... I believed it, so I did the normative thing and made a career out of concern for feeding the population explosions. Nearly sixty years later, and to cover that failure, TPTB bring on the GMOs of all manner of creatures, great and small, to tortured into somss2.
What we will see happen next is a collapse that is ten times worse than any previous, until we come to know that we MUST work w/Nature instead w/o her or against her. we live in a series of closed loop systems, and the only additive energy is from the sun: we cannot defeat the Three Laws of Thermodynamics.
One day --un bel di!-- we may awaken from our slumber of scientism and accept the hand we've been dealt. Until then, expect the same futile re-invention of the wheel over and over, until the mind numbs. After all, it's for your own good, dontcha know....