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Winnebago ethanol plant fined $100,000

Full story: TwinCities.com

Owners of the ethanol plant in Winnebago have agreed to to pay a $100,000 fine and make a $50,000 contribution to benefit Rice Lake after pleading guilty in federal court Wednesday to violating the Clean Water Act.

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W T F

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That's silly. Having an ethanol plant pay a fine to the government would be like me borrowing myself $5. Fines paid with tax dollars. Hilarious.
mnremark

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Do you honestly think that ethanol plants only operate on tax-payer money?
Incredible

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Aug 21, 2009
 
But ethanol is saving the environment...this can't be true!

Is the government going to subsidize this plant and pay the bill for them?
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Aug 21, 2009
 
mnremark wrote:
Do you honestly think that ethanol plants only operate on tax-payer money?
No, just most of it:


Corn ethanol subsidies totaled $7.0 billion in 2006 for 4.9 billion gallons of ethanol. That's $1.45 per gallon of ethanol (and $2.21 per gal of gas replaced).
omg

Beaver Dam, WI

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Isnt Ethenol a great idea?! Wake up MN..

“26+6=1”

Since: Jan 09

Northern MN

ISP: Dugway, UT

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Now fine all the morons in the Legislature who vote to put this crap in our fuels. Ethanol is a complete farce and mandated farm subsidy. GET RID OF IT!!!!!!!!!!
WhooHooo

Minneapolis, MN

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Aug 21, 2009
 
Environmentally fridly fuel? "discharging wastewater into Rice Lake"....N-I-C-E!
Amabo Atoyot Ahamay

La Crosse, WI

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Of course ethanol is good for the environment. Otherwise, we wouldn't use 2 gallons of petroleum for every gallon produced.
Dave

Savage, MN

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E-85 getting harder to find at the pump as consumers figure the scam that is ethynol and stop buying it.
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