The dumbest thing mankind has ever done, to use food for fuel when people are starving.
So whose bad idea was that in the first place?
Go ahead. Wave the magic policy wand and remove biofuels, subsidies, etc.
Heck, go so far as to ban them completely.
Watch as food prices continue to go up and up and up.
As long as diesel fuel, fertilizer, steel, copper, etc go up in price, food will go up in price. Bet the farm on it.
Same thing will happen with fluorescent light bulbs too. They always have these knee jerk reactions, then come to regret it later, and thus causing another knee jerk reaction. Circle jerk.
Sooo, we could redirect all of our corn and only get a total of 4% of our current fuel use? And the politicians thought this was a good idea when they passed the initiatives?
They should know from past experience, however, that no bad liberal idea EVER gets undone. (and they’re usually ok with that) In fact, the usual prescription is more of the same bad medicine that got us sick in the first place. I don’t see this situation as being any different.
Using food as fuel while refusing to explore domestic sources of Oil and Gas is criminal.
Time to buy a lottery ticket. The WaPo has written something with which for once I actually agree.
I can’t believe the WashPost printed this
I never seemd like a win scenario for anyone bu archer daniels midlands and their corn growers. Ethanol has been, is, and always will be a fraud perpetrated upon the taxpaying public to benefir a small specific sector of the economy. Bush knowingly went along with it to pay off his big republican supportes in the corn states.
repeal it after only five months. Nice.
One can only hope that they repeal it as soon as they can. The sooner the better for all of us and SCREW THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN SUCKING DOWN TAX MONEY BECAUSE OF THIS FRAUD!!
I wouldn’t blame it all on the Rats. I’ll bet there are plenty of midwestern RINOs who worship at the altar of Agribusiness.
Lots of luck. Congress did it to buy the farm vote (i.e., the factory farm vote).
Undoing this mess may be harder than you moonbat jerks think.
Reduce CO2, which will make plants weaker and slower growing, and switch to bio-fuels. Great plan!
Why is it that liberals cannot see the LOGICAL outcome before it actually takes place?
The main idea seems to have been cleaner air for the californicators. Pollution caused by cars however seems to be something like a 95-5 proposition these days with 5% of the cars causing 95% of the pollution and the difference between the East coast and California is that on the east coast old cars are generally driven by students and immigrants while in Ca more often than not it’s millionaires driving some old piece of garbage with a Holley carburator because he thinks it’s cool. **** em! California air is simply not my problem and I resent having ethanol in my gasoline because of it. Let the californicators take the old garbage off the road.
If congress had the sense of a flea this ethanol boondoggle would end tomorrow. But I expect the vote buying to continue full bore.
What is really sick about this is biodiesel will work, but congress is poisoning the well for the oil companies.
Libs will never realize how stupid they really are. They just keep trying to fail.
The libs always pass laws and regulations with an eye to how many voters they will deliver to the party. I think the food crisis the greens have created was considered. They determined that anybody forced into trouble would be able to seek help from any of the hundreds of government programs designed to place ever more Americans onto the teat of government.
We...are...not...burning...our...food.
More left wing Malthusian sloganeering. Say it enough times and it becomes true.
The less fortunate folks in the Rep. of Panama depend on rice as a main food staple.
About 3 months ago, a 5-pound bag cost $1.86.
This week it is up to $2.47.
I don’t know how these folks are going to survive as food prices keep going up and up.