Today in Biofuels Opinion: “It is pushing and shoving time in Washington, DC over the use of ethanol”

QC Times: “It is pushing and shoving time in Washington, DC over the use of ethanol. Beyond the ongoing arguments whether it ultimately saves energy or not and what effect it has on food prices, there is a battle waging about the amount of ethanol that should be used in gasoline — which could have a huge effect on boaters…The boating industry…contend the move would create major problems.The marine association says some 12 million boat engines would be adversely affected. At the E10 level, both groups reported problems with plugged carburetors and filters and with some kinds of fuel tanks. Newer engines are designed to run on E10, but the industries maintain E15 would cause great harm to the vast number of engines that were not designed to run on it.”

Oil WatchDog: “Is Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s vanity-green hydrogen fuel project worth the loss of health insurance for thousands of California children? Ah, I didn’t think so, either. Yet Schwarzenegger is out today touting his $14.4 million state subsidy to build seven hydrogen fueling stations for a nonexistent fleet of fuel-cell vehicles that almost no one (except for the governor) can afford…At the same time the governor was in Los Angeles cheerleading (per his ‘personal’ Tweet at left) for hydrogen, he was circulating his plan in Sacramento to cut 1 million children of working families from the state’s low-cost child health insurance program to fill a budget hole.”

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