Is there truly nothing these morons, these dolts cannot fuc up? I mean for god sakes what’s next....seriously.This is exactly what happens when the Guberment gets involved on the free market....the market changes and we take it in the shorts , again. Yea run my health care, please.




In theory, the Environmental Protection Agency has the power to solve this problem by tweaking the mandates imposed by Congress, and it may act as early as next week.

Each potential solution would anger one interest group or another, so the agency has been subjected to fierce lobbying, including from members of Congress lining up behind various factions. One possibility is to raise the maximum proportion of ethanol in gasoline to 15 or 20 percent.
But that idea is opposed by some carmakers and pollution experts. They contend that high ethanol blends can cause damage to cars, including making catalytic converters run hotter.

The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers says it believes this could cause the converters, components that help control pollution, to fail at around 50,000 miles. They are supposed to last for 120,000 to 150,000 miles. “We are sensitive to the issues facing the ethanol industry, but the government must make decisions based on sound science,” said Dave McCurdy, president and chief executive of the alliance, in a letter to the E.P.A.

Another possibility is that the agency could waive the mandates requiring use of a large volume of biofuels. But that would anger farmers, who sell a great deal of corn to ethanol factories, and the members of Congress who represent them. It might also undermine the efforts of companies that are investing millions in factories to make ethanol from waste materials, like corncobs, straw and garbage.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/27/bu...mPo61HmnZqTvPA

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"The captain has turned off the `No Dubbing' sign. You are free to speak any language you choose."

All I know is my corn flakes have gotten awfully expensive....

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I'm sick and tired of my brothers and sisters dying to preserve Americans' right to drive like assholes.

Yes they don't want to piss off the environmental evangelist or the farmers (who I wouldn't be surprised if they are lobbying for this) but they don't care about pissing off the American people by causing poor performance in their cars and their catalytic converters to wear out sooner.

This is just another example of a government gone out of control. We no longer have a government for the people but a government by the special interest, of the special interest and for the special interest. The American people be dammed!

Everybody in public office should be voted out with very few exceptions.

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"Democracy passes into despotism." - Plato

There is only one thing a catalytic converter is good for, sound dampening.

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January 21, 2013: The End of an ERROR.

"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters."
"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."
"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
---Benjamin Franklin

As long as the Iowa caucuses are the opening of the Presidential primaries, Ethanol is secure.

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“ The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.”

Adam Smith , The Wealth of Nations 1776

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics"
FDR's second Inaugural Address

Not so fast, the catalytic converter does reduce a great deal of emissions from the engine.

It is a good sound damper though - most people don't want to drive a car that sounds like a lawn mower.

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"Democracy passes into despotism." - Plato

On the contrary, I wouldn't want to ride a lawn mower that sounded like my car when the CC fell off.

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January 21, 2013: The End of an ERROR.

"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters."
"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."
"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
---Benjamin Franklin