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Our sck5 and CD undoubtedly want more of this:
From the 9 March 2009 National Review editors...
"The US government created this country's ethanol industry. First it subsidized it. Then it protected it with tariffs. Finally, after these measures failed to spark a demand for ethanol, the government mandated its use as an additive in gasoline. The mandate did the trick. Once people were actually required to buy ethanol, distilleries started popping up all over the Midwest. Then the financial crisis hit. Gasoline consumption declined as the economy slowed, meaning less demand for ethanol. Plants started going out of business every week, putting thousands of people out of work. Now the industry is asking for a $1 billion bailout to get it through these difficult times. The joke is on the American public, whose representatives set aside $20 billion for renewable-energy subsidies in the stimulus bill. Think of the ethanol industry, and remember that subsidies are just the beginning."
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“Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.”
Wm. F. Buckley, Jr.
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