REPUG MISGOVERNANCE FIASCO: Days of Promise Fade for Ethanol

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MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

Repug/tea bagger (financed by corporations and wealthy) hate for govt, with the tactic of intentionally not governing (All Politics, All The Time), governing badly, and automatically obstructing Dems from governing has paid off, and will pay off for years.

Poll: Americans Have Very Little Faith In Government

Americans enter 2014 with a profoundly negative view of their government, expressing little hope that elected officials can or will solve the nation's biggest problems, a new poll finds.

Half say America's system of democracy needs either "a lot of changes" or a complete overhaul, according to the poll conducted by the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Just 1 in 20 says it works well and needs no changes.

Americans, who have a reputation for optimism, have a sharply pessimistic take on their government after years of disappointment in Washington.

The percentage of Americans saying the nation is heading in the right direction hasn't topped 50 in about a decade. In the new poll, 70 percent lack confidence in the government's ability "to make progress on the important problems and issues facing the country in 2014."

The poll comes about two months after partisan gridlock prompted the first government shutdown in 17 years.

People feel somewhat better about their personal lives. Most have at least some confidence that they'll be able to handle their own problems in the coming year. A narrow majority say they'd do a better job running the country than today's leaders in Washington.

Local and state governments inspire more faith than the federal government, according to the poll, with 45 percent at least moderately confident in their state government and 54 percent expressing that much confidence in their local government.


Health care reform topped the list. It is likely, however, that those naming the issue include both opponents and supporters of President Barack Obama's sweeping health care overhaul.

Jobs and the economy were next, followed by the nation's debt and deficit spending.

Some issues that draw ample media and campaign attention rank lower in the public's priorities. No more than 3 percent of Americans listed gay rights, abortion or domestic spying as prime topics for government action.

Regardless of the issue, however, Americans express remarkably little confidence that the federal government can make real progress.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/am...+%28TPMNews%29

Obsessed with LGBT hate, abortion, guns, Bible/faith/"Christian" bull , repealing ACA, and the meaningless deficit, Repug/tea bagger/hate media non-stop propaganda and LYING, while protecting/enriching VRWC/UCA/1% while ing over the 99%, count on the disengagement and ignorance of Americans to get their way in ing up the govt and the country.

[CosmicCowboy]

The corn gas idea is as bipartisan as it is stupid. It never made any sense and never can make sense.

Totally agree. The sooner it dies, the better.

[Winehole23]

possibility of inorganic production:

Stanford University scientists have found a new, highly efficient way to produce liquid ethanol from carbon monoxide gas. This promising discovery could provide an eco-friendly alternative to conventional ethanol production from corn and other crops, say the scientists. Their results are published in the April 9 advanced online edition of the journal Nature.


"We have discovered the first metal catalyst that can produce appreciable amounts of ethanol from carbon monoxide at room temperature and pressure – a notoriously difficult electrochemical reaction," said Matthew Kanan, an assistant professor of chemistry at Stanford and coauthor of the Nature study.


Most ethanol today is produced at high-temperature fermentation facilities that chemically convert corn, sugarcane and other plants into liquid fuel. But growing crops for biofuel requires thousands of acres of land and vast quan ies of fertilizer and water. In some parts of the United States, it takes more than 800 gallons of water to grow a bushel of corn, which, in turn, yields about 3 gallons of ethanol.


The new technique developed by Kanan and Stanford graduate student Christina Li requires no fermentation and, if scaled up, could help address many of the land- and water-use issues surrounding ethanol production today. "Our study demonstrates the feasibility of making ethanol by electrocatalysis," Kanan said. "But we have a lot more work to do to make a device that is practical."

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/a...ts-040914.html

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"The research was supported by Stanford University, the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy."

There They Go Again, wasting taxpayer $$$.

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boutons nothing to say.