February 11, 2012
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Events
- Movie showtimes
- Boy Scout Pancake Day Feb. 11 , 6 a.m.
- Cake Decorating Feb. 11 , 10:30 a.m.
- EHS presents "Into the Woods" Feb. 11 , 1 p.m.
- Paper Bead Making Feb. 11 , 2 p.m.
- EHS presents "Into the Woods" Feb. 11 , 6:30 p.m.
- The Red Dress Ball Feb. 11 , 8 p.m.
- Richard Slimon Gallery Feb. 11
- Granada Movie - The King and I Feb. 12 , 2 p.m.
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The problem with ethanol
Thanks to mediacritic and gary399 for their very insightful comments. It is always interesting to see those who complain about the 50 cent ethanol subsidy when gasoline has increased over $1.50 in 5 years! Where would your subsidy like to go? Petrodictators hostile to the U.S. or to developing a renewable fuel industry here with American farmers who put food on our tables daily? Let's not wring our hands over the "sky is falling stuff" with too many people on the planet that is not in our control. What we can do is to continue to develop varied sources of renewable fuels for our children that is better for the environment. Ethanol is only ONE option but a reasonable start.
April 6, 2007 at 7:42 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
The problem with ethanol
Mr. Hartman needs to learn to separate out fossil fuel for use in vehicles and for use in generating electricity. Most of power generation comes from coal, natural gas, steam, and nuclear. Less than 5% comes from fossil fuel. Furthermore, this poorly written article did not mention that corn based ethanol is only a stopgap measure to produce from other sources such as organic wastes and swithgrass that actually protects the vital top soil and is self replenishing.
Finally, Herr Stanton, has no facts other than his emotional "greed and laziness" statement. Many ethanol plants are 50% owned by farmers who work 18 hours a day..hardly lazy people. This has also cut out farm subsidies by 7 billion dollars this year alone unlike European farmers who could not compete internationally without subsidies and have pitifully low crop yields compared to U.S. corn production using genetically modified corn.
You are right about one thing, we could save alot of money in the U.S. by pulling out of European bases in Germany and Italy and protecting yourselves and quit buying gas guzzling Mercedes.
April 4, 2007 at 8:35 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )