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Originally posted by PASig:
Is this clown for real? Boasting about how he’s saving us 10 cents a gallon when this MF raised the price TWO DOLLARS since taking office?

Just more evidence that he doesn't live in the present World outside DC--or even think about it.

flashguy

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Originally posted by PASig:
Is this clown for real? Boasting about how he’s saving us 10 cents a gallon when this MF raised the price TWO DOLLARS since taking office?

This is reminiscent of the 4th of July hotdog discount debacle; hopefully he will get ripped on by everyone just like then. Worse even.

And even the birds don’t like him. Not that I give a “crap” about a bird unloading on him, as we’ve all had this happen, but his handlers actually said it was corn…

https://www.foxnews.com/politi...defecates-on-him.amp

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Originally posted by k5blazer:
Higher percentage of ethanol means less fuel efficiency, increased wear and tear on vehicles, more pollution, and increase in food prices. Brilliant move.

April 13, 2022

E15 fuel announcement will backfire
By Michael R. Worthington

The Biden administration has announced the suspension of the rule which prevented the sale of fuel containing up to 15% ethanol alcohol during the summer months. The current rack price (wholesale price) of a gallon of ethanol is about 75% of the rack price of a gallon of pure gasoline, so the retail price of E15 fuel should be cheaper than regular E10 fuel by about 10 cents per gallon according to the White House. The additional ethanol will replace some petroleum-based fuel, which will slightly reduce the demand for crude oil and theoretically lower its price.

E15 (also known as Unleaded88) fuel sales have been banned from June 1st to September 15th because alcohol is more volatile than gasoline. The concern was that ethanol evaporates more readily than gasoline in the summer heat, and then the fumes contribute to smog.

President Trump issued an executive order to allow the sale of E15 during the summer to please farmers, but courts overturned the order. This time, President Biden had the EPA issue an emergency rule permitting summer sales of E15, but environmentalists may challenge this rule in court.

This new rule will have little effect on the overall price of fuel because less than one percent of the filling stations in the U.S. even offer E15. Stations have been reluctant to carry E15 since they couldn’t sell it during the peak summer driving season. And many drivers were reluctant to buy it because vehicles older than 2001 cannot use E15 fuel, so consumer acceptance of E15 has been slow since it was first introduced in 2012.

Environmentalists pushed for renewable bio-fuels such as ethanol and farmers were happy with the increased demand for corn, which raised the price of the crop. Iowa grows more corn than any other state in the union, which is why President Biden went to Iowa to make the announcement.

Ethanol has less energy per gallon than gasoline, so fuel mileage is slightly less with a gasoline/ethanol mix, including the common E10 fuel. However, ethanol has higher octane than gasoline, so the alcohol serves another purpose in addition to reducing costs per gallon. And alcohol helps to oxygenate the fuel, which reduces air pollution from fuel combustion.

Another issue is the impact on food prices, since corn is commonly used to produce ethanol. Corn future prices are already rising because 1.5% to 2% fewer acres of corn are expected to be planted in the U.S. in 2022 due to the skyrocketing costs of fertilizer. Farmers will cut back on the use of fertilizer, reducing the yield per acre. Urea and ammonia are produced from natural gas, so the steep rise in the cost of natural gas has caused the price of these nitrogen fertilizers to more than double from last year. Taking into account all of these factors, corn future prices have risen from $4.94 per bushel in September 2021 to $7.75 today.

There is also some concern that more ethanol production will reduce the food supply because 44% of the corn grown in the U.S. is already used to produce alcohol. But only about 10% of the corn grown in the U.S. is directly used to produce food for people, mostly in the forms of corn oil and high-fructose corn syrup. Approximately 45% of the corn grown in the U.S. is used for animal feed, so higher corn prices will increase the costs of raising livestock and the prices of meat in the grocery store.

The fermentation process used to produce alcohol uses the starch in the corn, leaving “spent grain” that is high in protein and minerals. This byproduct is used as a supplement in animal feed, so the production of ethanol is not a total loss of animal feed.

The Ukraine/Russia War also impacts the price and availability of food crops. Russia is the world’s leading exporter of wheat, and Ukraine in the fifth largest wheat exporter. While neither country exports much corn. Ukraine produces 25% of the sunflower seeds grown worldwide, and Russia produces another 22%. Sunflower seeds are mostly used to produce cooking oil, but corn oil can be substituted for sunflower oil. The result of the war will be increased demand for corn, higher corn prices, and higher overall food prices worldwide.

The sale of E15 fuel during the summer will have a minimal effect on fuel prices. This move was designed to show that the administration is at least doing something to reduce fuel prices at the pump.

https://www.americanthinker.co...e_little_impact.html

Twitter video in link

Biden shakes hands with imaginary person on stage

I'll bet the invisible friend's name is Brandon.

^^^^
Corn Pop

He was confused as to which way to exit the stage.

He will need foot prints painted on the floor soon.

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Originally posted by BMR:
And even the birds don’t like him.

If the Foo shits, wear it.

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:
He was confused as to which way to exit the stage.

He will need foot prints painted on the floor soon.

The old fool got LOST trying to walk off a stage.

Wow.

At the "lost" speech biden said:

https://hotair.com/karen-towns...sor-at-upenn-n462644

Biden pulled a Biden and did some resume padding by claiming he was a “full professor” at the University of Pennsylvania during the brief time he was not in office. Biden has a long history of lying about his personal accomplishments, to be sure, but claiming to have been a professor as one of those is a stretch even for him. Biden said, ‘I’ve been at a lot of university campuses, matter of fact for four years, I was a full professor at the University of Pennsylvania.’

Biden was named Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor in 2017. Clearly the designation was made up for him because Biden was the first. He did not teach regular classes. He did, however, make a total of about a dozen appearances on campus over the course of three years, usually for big-ticket events. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported on Biden’s sweet deal in 2019. He collected a pay check in 2017, 2018 and early 2019 from the university to the tune of nearly $1 million. The newspaper reported that Biden’s role was “vague” and he didn’t teach regular classes



The UPenn gig was an honorary position that allowed Biden to enrich himself and show up every now and then, usually for his own benefit, like for the event where he hawked his book. Biden barely graduated from law school and his undergrad days didn’t set the world on fire. Why would anyone think the man is an academic?

Has Biden's downward slide peaked too early?

I see he's lifted the drilling on federal land. And while I think that's great it seems to me an attempt to reverse his negative approvals. He surely doesn't give a shit about the American people's situation with regard to pump prices of gas, only votes. And Twitter is still in the hands of the far left, so my fear is that his advisors (puppeteers) will pull out all the stops as Nov approaches to save his party's ass. Let's just hope the Hunter deal doesn't die.

No doubt his biggest problem isn't the war, chips for new cars, or Musk v Twitter,

Its the cost of living, the things voters touch daily, gas, food, power bills, medical bills anything that is being driven up in price, the fact that his policies have driven up interest rates making homes even less affordable is a bigger problem, since it could tank home sales, and values.

He has to get the pressure off oil prices, and drive them down in the next 6 months, they have done the polls, they know what may be coming, loss of the house, senate and by large margins, possibly even long term changes to those two if people can't afford daily lives.

We can live without the latest Tesla/F150 because the chips are not there, and the war, while a horrible thing, is on the other side of the world, and our kids aren't in the fight. Billionaire wars over company control, 90% of the people in the US couldn't buy 100 shares of Twitter, it's not even on the radar as a problem.

Getting the kids food, heat, and being able to afford to go to work, that's important.

You know, the thing about Biden is that he seems to keep coming up with new and exciting downward slides - and none of his "solutions" seem to be thought through or work.

I don't argue that there's nothing to worry about, but (FWIW) I'm not worrying about Biden climbing out of a trough unless he does it some time after the end of the summer when people in more heavily populated areas have gotten used to talking about the mileage and performance of their cars on 15% ethanol. The roots of whatever personal popularity he has just don't run that deep, and voting red this fall is still the only set of hobbles that can be put on him.

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Originally posted by NavyGuy:

I see he's lifted the drilling on federal land.

Only on a fraction of the land that was previously open. Reportedly.

It'll do nothing for prices.

Really, what does Joe Biden care about the economy or anything else. He’s got a permanent pension from the FedGov as both a Senator and President. He’s only got a few years left of being sentient, and after that Dr Jill is set. As for the rest of the Biden Crime Family, well you takes your chances. The Dem Party as it currently exists dies with the Old Guard.

Inflation isn’t going away anytime soon. Also, Biden’s inherent ability to screw things up was a big enough liability before the dementia started setting in.

His problems are only going to get worse. My guess is we’ll be seeing less and less of him.

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Originally posted by NavyGuy:
Has Biden's downward slide peaked too early?

I see he's lifted the drilling on federal land. And while I think that's great it seems to me an attempt to reverse his negative approvals. He surely doesn't give a shit about the American people's situation with regard to pump prices of gas, only votes. And Twitter is still in the hands of the far left, so my fear is that his advisors (puppeteers) will pull out all the stops as Nov approaches to save his party's ass. Let's just hope the Hunter deal doesn't die.

Actually Ole Slo Joe is making things worse for himself by doing what he's doing. The small change in federal lands opened up by Biden will make zero difference in the overall cost and availability of oil, but its likely to really piss off the Leftist's who have been pulling Biden's strings up until now. Regardless what they do between now and November, Biden and the Dems are toast. The fear all of us should have is how the Repub's will completely screw this advantage up.

CNN Analyst Reveals Biden Has Worst Approvals in History