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Old Dec 29, 2011 | 10:54 PM
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Thumbs down Congress ends corn ethanol subsidy

Figured I'd post this here, since like me many here are also building/have built their cars to run on e85.

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/2...320/1148/rss25
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Old Dec 29, 2011 | 10:57 PM
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thanks!
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Old Dec 29, 2011 | 11:12 PM
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all that means is were the ******** who are going to have to pick up that 6 billion a year tab one way or another. fuel prices will go up because there are laws that ethanol must be used in gasoline and until that goes away that just means the ethanol price is going to go way up. Think our taxes will go down to compensate? lol... were gonna get fucked in the end. again.
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Old Dec 29, 2011 | 11:48 PM
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It's about time they end it...they need to end all subsidies.
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Old Dec 30, 2011 | 05:54 AM
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Wonder if they will ramp up other ethanol production. Here in the SE there was supposed to be a kudzu ethanol facility going up as well as one that produced ethanol from pine byproducts.
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Well stick a fork in that ****! Fak!
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Aren't there tax incentives for the use of bio fuel or does it only apply to new vehicles? I thought I remember reading about a loophole where you can also apply the tax credit toward vehicles that have been converted to run bio fuel.
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Old Dec 30, 2011 | 08:59 AM
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GOOD, now we can get the cheap e85 from brazil, since they also ended the tariffs.
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I didn't read the article but what does that realistically mean for us? I'm building my LS RX-7 for corn solely. I don't really care if E85 ends up being the price of regular gasoline but my fear is that at that price the only people who will by E85 will be enthusiasts and there certainly aren't enough of us to support such a gigantic industry.
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Originally Posted by bmech211
Aren't there tax incentives for the use of bio fuel or does it only apply to new vehicles? I thought I remember reading about a loophole where you can also apply the tax credit toward vehicles that have been converted to run bio fuel.
IIRC that was if it was done prior to 1 Jan 2009.
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Originally Posted by 71 chevy
GOOD, now we can get the cheap e85 from brazil, since they also ended the tariffs.
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