As gas prices continue to reach unprecedented heights – with Gas Buddy reporting that the U.S. national average topped $5 a gallon for the first time in history – the Biden administration has now mandated that more ethanol be mixed into the gasoline.
Ethanol is a refined extract derived from corn and soybeans and is promoted as a more environmentally friendly fuel additive.
Some gave praise to Biden’s move and claimed that it would help curtail the rising gas prices, cited by a Yahoo News article.
More ethanol in the fuel supply saves Americans money at the pump and lowers greenhouse gas emissions.
Chris Edgington, an Iowa farmer and National Corn Growers Association’s board president, said
President Biden understands the important role the biofuels industry plays in supporting Iowa farmers and rural communities while reducing the price at the pump for consumers.
Representative Cindy Axne of Iowa (D) said in a statement
By requiring petroleum refiners to blend larger volumes of low-cost biofuels like ethanol, today’s actions will put downward pressure on gas prices and provide economic relief to American families facing record-high pump prices.
Renewable Fuels Association CEO Geoff Cooper said in a statement
Others gave criticism to Biden’s move: Chet Thompson, CEO of the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, said the blending requirement for this year is “contrary to the administration’s claims to be doing everything in their power to provide relief to consumers.”
Unachievable mandates will needlessly raise fuel production costs and further threaten the viability of U.S. small refineries, both at the expense of consumers.
Thompson added
On the same day Yahoo News published their article, the Wall Street Journal reported that ‘The Biden administration on Friday retroactively reduced the amount of ethanol that must be blended into gasoline for 2020 and 2021 but raised the level for 2022, saying the changes are aimed at helping boost domestic fuel supplies.’
The WSJ further noted:
The Biden administration on Friday retroactively reduced the amount of ethanol that must be blended into gasoline for 2020 and 2021 but raised the level for 2022, saying the changes are aimed at helping boost domestic fuel supplies.
The agency can adjust these requirements retroactively, signaling to refiners how much they will have to spend to buy market credits that help them comply with obligations lingering from past years.
Both ethanol and corn prices have risen sharply, and cutting the 2022 mandate potentially could have lowered refiners’ business costs and led to lower prices at the pump, but likely by only a few cents a gallon, said analysts at research and consulting firm Rapidan Energy Group LLC.
Millions of acres are being pointlessly sacrificed just to grow corn to fuel gas-guzzling SUVs. Meanwhile the EPA looks the other way as our ocean dead zones grow, water pollution worsens, and endangered species suffer.
Brett Hartl, government affairs director at the Center for Biological Diversity, said
Expanded ethanol production under federal mandates raised corn prices by 30% and the prices of other crops by 20%, according to a report published earlier this year in the National Academy of Sciences. The report also said growing more corn for ethanol led to increased amounts of water pollutants from U.S. farms and negated ethanol’s climate benefits.
MISH Talk also pointed out a move that Biden made last year regarding ethanol use. On April 12th, 2021, ‘Biden announced an environmental waiver to allow sales of 15% ethanol gasoline blends (E15) this summer. The Clean Air Act prohibits this because higher ethanol blends can increase smog in hot weather. They can also erode older car engines, gas pumps, storage tanks and pipelines,’ the WSJ wrote. President Trump tried doing the same thing in 2019.
MISH Talk provided a synopsis of what last year’s move and current actions by Biden’s staff entails:
- 30% higher corn prices with other crops rising by 20%, according to the National Academy of Sciences.
- Growing more corn for ethanol causes increased amounts of water pollutants from U.S. farms
- Expect more fertilizer use when fertilizer costs are soaring
- More summer smog
- E15 erodes older car engines, gas pumps, storage tanks and pipelines.
- Small refiners will suffer and some will go out of business allowing Elizabeth Warren to moan about the concentration of “Big Oil”.
‘To top things off, when Trump tried the same thing, the courts struck it down as illegal,’ MISH added.
In 2012 Johnathan Benson for Natural News reported on the move by the Obama administration – when Biden was the Vice President – where the EPA was set to approve E15 for use in automobiles. Benson pointed out how ethanol takes a toll on the car’s engine, while also reducing the miles per gallon the vehicle could put out.
‘Even ten percent ethanol-blended gasoline produces lower mileage per gallon, and gradually destroys engines over time. Ethanol-laced gasoline has also been shown to produce more pollutants than pure gasoline, which is a complete contradiction to the claims made by the pro-ethanol industry for why adding it to gasoline is supposedly beneficial,’ Benson wrote.
Ethanol is more corrosive and burns hotter than gasoline, properties that could cause some engines to stall, misfire and overheat. Fuel with higher ethanol blends emits more nitrous oxide and formaldehyde than gasoline, lowers mileage and damages fuel tanks and pumps.
Wrote the Environmental Working Group (EWG) in a recent press release at the time.
Benson additionally wrote, ‘Most of today’s vehicles simply have not been designed to properly run on ethanol-blended fuel, whether it is E10 or E15. But using anything above E10 in most conventional vehicles is almost sure to cause immediate and serious problems, whereas using E10 and below is more likely to cause longer-term problems that show up later.’
Instead of approving a fuel that will pose health and safety hazards and damage engines, the U.S. should invest in energy efficiency measures and research and development for truly sustainable biofuels. The high cost of replacing or repairing engines will be tacked onto corn ethanol’s other costs — including higher food prices, increased soil erosion and polluted water supplies.
Said Sheila Karpf, a legislative analyst with EWG.
Automotive website It Still Runs reports that ethanol does reduce a vehicle’s miles per gallon ratios.
Ethanol usually gets mixed into gasoline, with concentrations usually not going past 85 percent, called E85. Ethanol’s effect on a car’s fuel efficiency depends on the blend that the person uses. E85, for instance, reduces fuel economy by 7 to 8 miles per gallon when compared to gasoline, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Ethanol has 34 percent less energy than gasoline per gallon, which equates to about 2 to 3 miles per gallon for E10 (10 percent ethanol), according to the New York Times.
The outlet confirms
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
I was beginning hear to grumblings and whispers about this, as I was seeing people online starting to notice their miles per gallon was not as good as it used to be. I noticed the same thing as well, after I recently filled up my car here in Northern Indiana. But then I saw Frank Tufano on YouTube talking about it as well, and postulated if the gas was getting watered down with ethanol, ruining the miles per gallon. The evidence presented in this article proves that that is what is happening.
So, it is quite clear that this move is designed to make the American serfs go broke trying to fill their tanks because the mileage has been greatly reduced, and then have more engine problems down the line. But the lying media has already established that car manufacturers cannot round up all the components needed for newer vehicles, due to “supply chain” issues, allowing them to jack up the costs and create artificial demand. But once more people’s cars start falling apart and repair shops don’t have the parts to fix them, coupled with the fact that electric cars are out of everybody’s price range, it’ll leave people stranded…
And that is the whole point, and lest you think I am making that up, go back and read the report I did in March: “International Energy Agency Calls For ‘Car-Free Sundays’ And Other Ways To Reduce Oil Use.” These actions by Biden coincide with this messaging.
Moreover, I also reported “The United Nations Says Used Cars Need To Be Scrapped To Stop Emissions By 2030 & 2050.” The writing is on the wall: in order to fulfil the Agenda 2030 and Absolute Zero goals, indirect actions like this must be taken; whilst creating even more famine and pollution on the backend.
As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.
Proverbs 28:15
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Not only are they killing people with their shots, they’re torturing them and their belongings. They truly are evil and love it. But they cannot escape God’s judgment!
Amen Cynthia!
I was wondering why my tank keeps burning up gas at an alarming rate.
They won’t escape God’s judgement but before it’s their turn, Great Satan America is gonna get slammed. Prepare and stay repenting I say to myself and others as a reminder.
Amen!
Jesus Christ is returning old Joe! You won’t be lickin anymore ice cream cones where you’re going!
I really believe His Return is Soon!
This also makes the glyphosate issue much worse. Burning gmo’s saturated with glyphosate, or with it incorporated into the plant itself, puts it into the air.
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America is no more ‘Great Satan’ than the Muslim or Hindu&Buddhist porn, pedophilia and elitist nicolaitan godmen regimes with their deceitful cultural practices & religious prostitution, ‘humbling’ of lessers & defeated enemies with the aggressor buggerer & abuser excused religiously…..and so forth. America has just been infiltrated & lowered to the same level as our traitorous leaders sold us out & used such people to get around lingering biblical values & scruples about exploiting one’s brother and defiling sin, God’s judgment etc.
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Or the supposedly godless socialist/fascist/communist regimes where certain classes of men and systems are deified in idolatrous humanism….same lying, deceitful and hateful, hypocritical spirit. Some suppose that gain is godliness & others that hateful vitriole & volume makes them godly in the spirit of Isaiah 14 and ‘Allah u akbar’ (and typically, that justifies their own theft and ill-gotten gain, exploitation, lack of faithful godly warning & self-limitation etc).
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They are deceived, and generally ignorant of the whole world rather than just their little pocket of it or what propaganda tells them.
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Look what India is doing with oil. Sure & there were ‘Western’ companies like Monsanto…German and American, and not according to rank and file American standards, but to sell-outs and traitors partnering with unscrupulous Hindus whose relativism and elitist religious occult gnosticism & caste system allows for easy self-justification in the exploitation of others. Ditto in banking & finance.
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And consider that antichrist terrorism there is on the rise, as in China, the Philippines & all of southeast Asia, while the old abuses & superstitious manipulation of women continues, especially where extremist religious leaders connect with socialism/communism. You have the Tamil, for instance, but getting back to India, there are many cases in which men & their mothers encourage serial marriage & poisoning for the dowries involved. In areas like Uttar Pradesh not only Christians are burned, but suttee is making a comeback….where widows are superstitiously encouraged to self-immolate on their husband’s funeral pyre. Which significantly frees up the property for other heirs.
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Rome’s not the only ‘religious’ Babylonian Whore to figure that out & to subvert family, covertly gather intel on people & then exploit them, organizing factions, creating division & war for filthy lucre and blood money …..just the mother of it, & in direct concordat and partnership with all the despotic regimes who are suffered because they pay their ‘cut’, & keep the people in bondage & subjection.
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Sin is universal. Where God & his word are rejected or corrupted or simply hypocritically given lip service: there is no remedy, so God brings judgment. What Satan means for evil & to the creation of many hateful, despiteful tools & dupes of coarsened consciences & embitterment to be used to destruction & then broken in their turn….the Lord will use to the good of the humble & repentant who come to their senses: to chasten, purge & prune, & sharpen his own: while exposing fakes & phonies who will manifest their bigotries and illegitimate hatred as though they themselves were not still wrapped in this vile flesh and had not needed to be faithfully warned & saved themselves.
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Philippians 3. And maybe they weren’t & need to examine themselves.
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1 Corinthians 11:31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
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Ultimately the Lord will call out his own, & then the sons of God & true sons of their father the devil, the father & inventor of lies & deception will be surely manifest.
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1Jo 2:7 ¶ Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.
1Jo 2:8 Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.
1Jo 2:9 He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
1Jo 2:10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
1Jo 2:11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
1Jo 2:12 ¶ I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.
1Jo 2:13 I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.
1Jo 2:14 I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.
1Jo 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1Jo 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
1Jo 2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
1Jo 2:18 ¶ Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
1Jo 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
1Jo 2:20 ¶ But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.
1Jo 2:21 I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
1Jo 2:22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
1Jo 2:23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: [but] he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.
1Jo 2:24 Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.
1Jo 2:25 And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.
1Jo 2:26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
1Jo 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
1Jo 2:28 ¶ And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
1Jo 2:29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
With regard to ‘gas guzzling’ SUV’s…that’s just propaganda, like calling old-fashioned biblical Americans who worked to be self-sufficient & were wary of dependence & ‘help from above’ humanly speaking, who put away for a rainy day and defended their own & the weak, innocent and defenseless.
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Suddenly capitalism was redefined in antichrist terms: God holds with private property, family, and outlaws theft & violation….and they were labeled ‘hoarders’. Labeled bullies (while sods infiltrated schools, seduced, violated & initiated at will, which was called ‘love’ and ‘tolerance’…so many defiled, coarsened & seared; and it began with heterosexual porn, abuse & fornication linked with drunkenness & drugs, just like the biblical Romans 1 outline of cultural decline into idolatry & its consequences).
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Suddenly ‘work’ which had been the old Christian work ethic turned back to the pagan and Greco-Roman upper and lower caste garbage, and the ‘smart’ ones were turned from honest labor minding their own business & working with their hands, while evangelizing the lost….to ‘clean fingernail’ Machiavellian corruption for ill-gotten gain and evangelizing for Satan’s bondage, defiling and seducing many into sin.
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Those gas-guzzling SUV’s haul around families that are ‘too big’ in the elitist euthanasia crowd’s terms. They can haul far too many groceries and materials that can be used to independence and self-sufficiency. Better for the serfs to have little enclosed bicycles to leave the private jets and BMW’s for the users & managing sell-out cronies.
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There was a woman reporter who thought it would be fun to drive from New Orleans to Chicago in her little electric car. It wasn’t. The usual 12 or so hour trip required 18 hours of lost charging time, and she ended up spending more time charging than driving or sleeping combined. Only propaganda keeps the ‘green’ and ‘sustainable’ smokescreen for antichrist despotism working, and its effectiveness is beginning to wane as people come to their senses.
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May there be many more, and may they elude the many distractors and cults of antichrist idolatrous humanism seeking to lure them into their false fold and away from the strait gate and narrow way leading unto life. The time grows short.
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Did anyone see Jason Cooley’s public preaching to the sods & trannies of Pride 2022? It was a perfect example of what’s really out there, & the effectiveness of the pure word of God against it. No place for women or the immature Christian or youngsters….but very instructional for how to deal with them without shaming, blaspheming or bringing reproach on the Lord and biblical rule & practice way of life & contention for the faith once delivered the saints. I felt like I knew that arrogant & evil charismatic attorney woman because she is so typical of this age, & her slick, deceitful, manipulative approach was cut to shreds:
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Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
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Also apparent was her evil manipulative control over her worshipful & young groups of adorers, followers and agitators. Very instructive of how the modern Jezebel works & how to deal with it.
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