Given the woefully inept rollout of the inflation reduction acts $7.5 billion for EV chargers across the country..

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2024/03/28/ev-charging-stations-slow-rollout/

“To identify the charade, one must first, look at the math: 500,000 charging stations, each with a minimum of four chargers, accomplished with an investment of $7.5 billion dollars. But that is only $15,000 per charging station, installed. A single high capacity charger can cost $100,000 or more, and most stations have multiple chargers. We are now in the second year of the program and only seven stations have been opened so far. At this rate, it will require thousands of years to build all 500,000 charging stations, assuming there are sufficient funds to do so.”

https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2024/07/03/the_nationwide_500000_ev_charger_charade_1041900.html

The next administration needs to pivot back to cleaner ICE vehicles.  E-30 MUST be a CORNERSTONE to that policy.

First let me admit.. even though I use it.. E-85 was a mistake.

However, E-30 is working as noted by our local Jumpstart stations..  Jumpstart comes in.. takes over a used station.. replaces the pumps with blender pumps.. then lines up cars.. customers.. who wait in lines.. to buy cheaper, cleaner E-30.

https://jumpstartstores.com/

In ethanol country.. we should allow and plant these all over.. Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, the Dakotas, Kansas, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio.. possibly California and the left coast.

This alone should put a little pop in ethanol demand.. match it to trend line corn yield improvement.  We “almost” have the infrastructure in place.

I suspect that EVs will carve out the big cities.. LA, Phoenix.. the desert Southwest.. possibly the East Coast.. but when these batteries start reaching their expected life.. and replacing them exceeds the vehicles value.. which is coming.. EVs might not be so popular.. they are kind of crashing now.

So we need to be ready to fill that void. 

The oil industry needs us to survive.. Ethanol truly sequesters carbon.. unlike solar panels and wind turbines.

https://www.authorea.com/users/559033/articles/607886-a-large-subsoil-carbon-sink-in-the-united-states-corn-belt

we need to sell our story.

I’m really disappointed that Ag Secretary Vilsack hasn’t been MORE FORCEFUL in advocating for this?

hello.. earth to Vilsack.. WHERE ARE YOU?

he should have been screaming this at the Inflation increasing act!

The next administration needs to fix this!!