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The poster child for government boondoggles.This is an interesting video about why government can't do anything right. If you don't want to watch the entire video, from 11:00 to 11:53 is the most important 43 seconds of the whole thing, because once again we see that when decisions are made by politics, the political powerful tend to get their way. That is never going to change.
Your title says 'environmentalists' and your comment is the same ol' right-libertarian gobbledygook.
No, the point is that environmental legislation, including government action regarding global warming, will nearly always benefit special interest groups while harming society, and corn ethanol is a perfect example.
Ethanol was always about farmers getting the government to subsidies their disposal of waste after processing corn into high grade high protein feed. The process for making ethanol is the same as making highgrade feed. The waste mash is the feed and the alcohol was the waste. The reason the framers converted corn to high grade feed was for the calories per ton, 3 times more efficient to ship than corn and it fetched much better price per bushel as well. The two trucks they don't need to hire to move the same product equivalent. That saves a boat load of money. Well that caused a hazardous waste problem because you just can't dump a bunch of alcohol anywhere. It was always bullshit and all the players knew it. If the ethanol thing was genuine we would have used sugar cane or sugar beet.This is an interesting video about why government can't do anything right. If you don't want to watch the entire video, from 11:00 to 11:53 is the most important 43 seconds of the whole thing, because once again we see that when decisions are made by politics, the political powerful tend to get their way. That is never going to change.
Interesting. I did a search and came across this:This is an interesting video about why government can't do anything right. If you don't want to watch the entire video, from 11:00 to 11:53 is the most important 43 seconds of the whole thing, because once again we see that when decisions are made by politics, the political powerful tend to get their way. That is never going to change.
Process livestock feed so that it uses 1/3 of the emissions to ship AND use byproduct of that process, which would otherwise be waste, to further lower emissions! Amazing.Ethanol was always about farmers getting the government to subsidies their disposal of waste after processing corn into high grade high protein feed. The process for making ethanol is the same as making highgrade feed. The waste mash is the feed and the alcohol was the waste. The reason the framers converted corn to high grade feed was for the calories per ton, 3 times more efficient to ship than corn and it fetched much better price per bushel as well. The two trucks they don't need to hire to move the same product equivalent. That saves a boat load of money. Well that caused a hazardous waste problem because you just can't dump a bunch of alcohol anywhere. It was always bullshit and all the players knew it. If the ethanol thing was genuine we would have used sugar cane or sugar beet.
You forgot to read the part were the emissions are raised not lowered.Process livestock feed so that it uses 1/3 of the emissions to ship AND use byproduct of that process, which would otherwise be waste, to further lower emissions! Amazing.
I can see why idiots fall for this stuff.
This is an interesting video about why government can't do anything right.
BTW, love the road crew guys, they keep the roads passable.The scientific community related to climate change reminds me of the road crews I see out working on roads. Two dozen people, 4 of those holding a stop/go sign, 4 others working with shovels, 10 holding shovels, 4 driving road equipment, 2 supervisors drinking coffee. They don't get in too big a hurry. They rip out old asphalt and replace it with new asphalt. They take what seems like forever to get the job completed and then they move on to another section of road and do the same thing. There is no new improved product, just a new layer of asphalt that will need replacing in a couple of decades and constant potholes will need filling along the way. No matter how long we have been hearing about climate change and the threat of it, the numbers have to be constantly refigured because they never seem to match up to what we were originally told. More new roads that will eventually fail and then more new roads that will eventually fail, over and over.
This doesn't demonstrate why government can't do anything right.
You are right. He should have said "progressives".Your title says 'environmentalists' and your comment is the same ol' right-libertarian gobbledygook.
Well yeah, that's the part that idiots believed that replacing gasoline with a renewable plant product would reduce emissions...You forgot to read the part were the emissions are raised not lowered.
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