[GeronL]

this crap cost untold billions - but ADM got rich from rent-seeking

how many years or decades before the subsidies are ended??

[Java4Jay]

FRACKING SAVES WATER

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3129951/posts

[MarkL]

“The whole purpose of the Renewable Fuel Standard was to encourage investment to create brand-new technologies that would help the United States become more energy-independent and use cleaner and more efficient fuels. We feel like we are just on the verge of doing that and now the E.P.A. is talking about changing the rules," Executive Vice President of the heavily subsidized biofuel company Abengoa Christopher Standlee said to the paper.

BULL BISCUITS!!!

The whole purpose for ethanol was to have the government siphon off billions of tax payer dollars to cronies, AND increase the demand for corn.

If they actually cared about energy, they would NOT be using ethanol, which is a far lower energy fuel than could be made with, say, switchgrass.

But then ADM and US farmers don't grow switchgrass.

Mark

[Salvation]

Silly scientists to think that ethanol would be better.

[SZonian]

Yeah, so what? It’s not about the climate or Gaia...it’s about filling tax coffers and enriching politicians and corn (subsidy) types...

Meanwhile, my mileage dropped from ~20-21 mpg to ~16-17mpg...means I buy fuel more often, paying additional taxes to keep the government machine rolling along.