Our oil is also far too cheap.
Our economy cannot recover until we get back to economic fundamentalism.
LOLOLOL!
"Economic fundamentalism" indeed! You don't care for the fundamental market forces which have resulted in cheaper food and fuel, so which "fundamentalism" were you talking about?
The market is giving you cheap food and cheap fuel, which is to you a Bad Thing, apparently. You arbitrarily declare that both are "too cheap". Because the pathetically inefficient alternatives to petroleum and other fossil fuels cannot compete, it must be that they are "too cheap!"
Yeah, that's the ticket!
Is it possible, in your universe, that solar power, wind power, ethanol production, etc. are too inefficient and too expensive?
So let me get this straight...
I support no tax credits for anybody.
you support tax credits for certain industries.
I say that gasoline/diesel would be 6 to 10 bucks without our tax dollars supporting Oil companies.
I say that food would be 100 to 200 percent higher in price without subsidies.
I say that ethanol (w/o ANY subsidies) would be a cheaper alternative to gasoline (because, mainly, we have a viable infrastructure to manufacture it) and that it could bring a revenue stream to farmers that surely would feel the pinch due lost farming subsidies.
Corn is what? 3 x higher than prices in 1950..Cars are 10 to 30 times higher, homes are 20 to 50 times higher...the list goes on.
I dont care if we are talking about ethanol or haircuts, if you are a capitalist, then the market needs to decide the price of a product, not us, as servants to a government that decides on “our behalf” what is the best thing to subsidize.