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When we refuse to pay a living wage, we never think of who we hurt at every stage. We hurt our weak and disabled poor elderly who suffer daily, waiting for nurses to help. Their pleas go unheeded. No one is there. We call them “care centers,” but nobody cares, when you can’t go to the bathroom alone, and you’re dreaming of the old days at home.
Our elders are so precious, with wisdom so great. Yet when they are vulnerable, we make them wait, just to save money on the payroll so we can add more cash to our bankroll. How would you feel if it were you? But you are rich, and you don’t care what’s true.
How can we treat poor elders like that, just so we can make our bank accounts fat? You’re trading your soul for money, you fool! Have you forgotten the golden rule? Death awaits you, and you’ve been so cruel. Shouldn’t we teach compassion in school? Think of our elderly, and forget your self. You can help if you will with your mountain of pelf.
Mark Huddleston
Storm Lake
Sustainable aviation fuel or SAF is quoted as potentially being a 35 billion gallon a year domestic market by 2050. This I believe is incorrect because SAF presently is a blend of conventional fossil fuel and synthetic components made from renewable feed stocks, which ethanol could be a part of. The maximum blend for SAF is 50%, more commonly used at 20 to 30 percent blend. That being said, SAF may only be an 8-to-10-billion-gallon market by 2050. Cellulosic ethanol made from corn stock bales a few years back was supposed to be the next great thing for farmers. Whatever happened to that and biodiesel? Also, SAF cost 2 to 3 times what regular jet fuel cost. The only reason SAF is being used is because the federal government subsidizes it at $1.25 to $1.75 per gallon. A big misconception about SAF is that it reduces tail pipe CO2 emissions. The CO2 tail pipe exhaust emissions between SAF and fossil jet fuel are the same.
I am all for ethanol as a renewable fuel. With the industry going to a 15% blend this would be 50% increase in their potential market. This is a big thing! The SAF market was only 15.8 million gallons last year. They are hoping to get to three billion gallons by 2030. That’s six years away if they can make it happen at all! If corn-based ethanol is good enough to use in my truck and car, why can’t we start making SAF right now? By adjusting the carbon intensity score on corn, Summit Ag was successful in getting a carbon intensity score of 20 for their second corn crop production out of Brazil. They can make SAF right now out of Brazil without having to use carbon capture pipelines. That’s what we need to do is rewrite outdated CORSIA and GREET guidelines like Brazil did making corn-based ethanol more friendly to SAF now and forget about carbon pipelines. Please watch YouTube video (Carbon Pipelines, CCS and Water).
Paul Hamilton
Bancroft
Disturbing news flows down like a river these days, and darned if it doesn’t usually come from America’s two monopoly political parties.
News agencies have kept track of it, and Trump has tried 10 times to delay his hush money trial, a pattern of behavior not usually associated with innocence. This is what wealthy criminals will attempt en masse in the future if Trump manages to get off the hook by exploiting the legal system this way. Before long we will see immunity claims from pretty-faced Hollywood stars, run-of-the-mill billionaires and politicians of the Senatorial class.
On the other hand, Biden is building a $180 million get-aid-to-Gaza pier on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea. Sounds to me like he expects this war to go on for a while, the war — ahem — that he greenlighted with no red lines for Israel’s Netanyahu. Not a pretty story. Bomb the living bejeebies out of a helplessly surrounded people and then start building a dock only after huge numbers of civilians have already died and many are already starving long before the first pontoon is positioned.
Kimball Shinkoskey
Woods Cross, Utah
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