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Winnebago ethanol plant fined $100,000

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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

Minneapolis, MN

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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

United States

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

Incredible

Saint Paul, MN

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?

Incredible

Saint Paul, MN

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..

lobster68w

“26+6=1”

Since: Jan 09

279

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

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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