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The real tradgety is financial - it is EVERYONES problem
In 2008 the Highway trust fund required an $8 billion bailout, in part becuase ethanol does not pay road tax.
Much of the "stimulus" money is going to go to fill the new hole in the trust fund that has formed since the 2008 bailout. The fund is almost empty again.
Ethanol is subsidized at about $0.50 per gallon.
MPG is effected, as explained.
Any improvment for the environment or global warming has been dismissed. Too many trees cut to plant corn.
Corn prices, and thus all groceries, are forced up. The impact on relations to other contries are effected, and there is no doubt amoung rational people that thousands have died of starvation as the result of higher food prices. No welfare in the 3rd world.
We are just a bunch of stupid, ugly Americans. Just stupid public policy disguised behind the new global warming religion.
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(when asked how he reached the starting holds on a difficult rock climbing problem that clearly favored taller climbers - he was perhaps 5'5")
"Well, I just climb up to them."
by Joe Brown, English rock climber
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