ABOUT FRIGGIN' TIME SOMEONE IN AUGUSTA DID THIS! But don't ask, TELL obama we're done with this ethanol crap!

Maine can just ban ethanol blending in all of its gasoline. There is NO federal mandatory E10 law. New Hampshire has already figured that out and passed legislation to ban the blending of corn ethanol in all of their gasoline in one house of their legislature: http://green.autoblog.com/2011/03/30/new-hampshire-votes-to-ban-corn-ethanol-rfa-not-pleased/ Maine can do the same thing. Why all the posturing, just do it.

Henry Fords first car ran on corn fuel.....ethanol. He thought, in my opinion appropriately, that America would NEVER have to worry about a fuel source. Go ahead and pay the $4.00 a gallon

Here are some facts about the food prices and the energy to produce ethanol:
• A May 2009 report by Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) at the University of Missouri found that if all policies supporting ethanol were removed, consumer food expenditures would drop by only 0.3 percent. The report was done at the request of members of Congress and organizations including the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, the Texas Pork Producers Association, the Texas Poultry Federation, the Texas Association of Dairymen and more.
• Ethanol production uses only the starch from the corn kernel, leaving the protein and nutrients for animal feed. There is no shortage of starch in the world. Every 56-pound bushel of corn used in a dry-mill ethanol process yields 18 pounds of distillers grains with solubles (DDGS), representing about 32 percent of the nutrient value. DDGS will displace more than 1 billion bushels of corn for feed in 2008-09 (NCGA).
• Only 15 cents of every dollar spent on food goes to the farm, and that number has been falling. Corn represents only a fraction of that. (USDA “Food Dollar Series” updated Feb. 2011). Oil prices and food company profits represent the lion’s share. Packaging and transportation, for instance are driven by the price of oil.
• Food manufacturers claimed price increases were to offset higher grain costs. However, those companies have consistently posted profits – often beating analysts’ predictions – while most other industries are challenged in the current economy.
• Kraft’s 1st quarter earnings, announced May 2009, beat analysts’ expectations by 12.5%, largely because of profit from price increases. Quarter profit was up more than 10 percent to $662 million.


• The U.S. Department of Agriculture has determined that for every 100 units of energy used to make ethanol, 167 units of energy are created in the form of ethanol. Dozens of other studies have concluded that ethanol has a significantly positive energy balance. These studies take into account the energy required to plant, grow and harvest the corn – as well as the energy required to manufacture and distribute the ethanol.
• It takes 1.23 million Btu of fossil energy input to make 1 million Btu of gasoline at the pump—that is, 23 percent more fossil energy than you end up with. But with ethanol, it is the other way around: It takes 0.78 million Btu of fossil energy to create 1 million Btu of ethanol at the pump—in other words, 22 percent less fossil energy than you end up with as ethanol. That’s because it takes petroleum energy to drill for oil, but free solar energy to grow corn. (DOE, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy)

dude, what are you talking about?......don't ask?.... WHAT, you wanna continue to pay for fossil fuels?, you are definately, an idiot. Bet you live in Waterville to, there's another idiot from there as well

Tell Beth if she is running for president she has my vote. finally a politician with a brain, how out of place would that be in Washington?

It sounds like Obama to me to spend $2.00 to save $1.00.....I should send the $700.00 snowmobile motor repair bill to Obama from last winter as well...