EPA Seeks to wreck the environment and starve poor people to death

The EPA just mandated doubling corn ethanol usage in automobiles in 5 years.  This flies in the face of widespread consensus that ethanol harms the environment and drives up the global price of basic foodstuffs at a time when world population continues to explode.

Follow us here. By the same date — 2015 — that the new 35.5 mpg EPA mandate is due to go into effect, oil companies are also mandated by Congress to double the amount of corn ethanol use (from 2007 levels) to 15 billion gallons. The current mandate of a 10 percent ethanol mix in fuel won’t get us there, so the powerful corn lobby is demanding EPA increase the mandate to a 15 percent ethanol mix.

Trouble is, a gallon of ethanol is 30 percent less efficient than a gallon of gas meaning that the more ethanol you mix in, the worse your gas mileage. Department of Energystudies show steadily decreasing fuel economy as ethanol blends rise from so-called E10 (fuel composed of 10 percent ethanol and 90 percent gas) up through E15 and E20 — with E20 suffering a 7.7 percent fuel efficiency loss.

Can we dispense with the fantasy that our public 'servants' are here to serve us?  This is fascism pure and simple.  The Corn ethanol lobby has lots of money and votes and so it gets to wreck the environment and kill people.  A more clear explanation of the Obami's "morality" could not be written.