The REAL political reality of BioFuels
GreyFlcn
Join Date: 2006-12-19 Member: 59134Members, Constellation
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It has everything to do with <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQMfPAsZqOM&eurl=" target="_blank">pleasing Corn States.</a>
And making it so that car companies and oil companies basically don't have to do anything different.
Also means we can funnel a lot of our tax dollars towards funding ADM, the Exxon of farm companies.
While funding even more tax dollars indirectly to corn farmers through higher food prices.
It has <a href="http://www.greyfalcon.net/ethanol3" target="_blank">nothing to do with reality.</a>
It's all about political pandering.
It has everything to do with <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQMfPAsZqOM&eurl=" target="_blank">pleasing Corn States.</a>
And making it so that car companies and oil companies basically don't have to do anything different.
Also means we can funnel a lot of our tax dollars towards funding ADM, the Exxon of farm companies.
While funding even more tax dollars indirectly to corn farmers through higher food prices.
It has <a href="http://www.greyfalcon.net/ethanol3" target="_blank">nothing to do with reality.</a>
It's all about political pandering.
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More or less, it does offer farmers a golden opportunity to sell-out and leave the business.
Assuming they own their land, rather than rent.
Otherwise they will just get crushed out the market and have nothing to show for it.
As this article puts it "Making Ethanol look more like a curse than a blessing"
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/environment/52073/" target="_blank">http://www.alternet.org/environment/52073/</a>
All the while the subsidies that actually would go directly to the farmers shrink, while those going towards mega-agrobusiness expand.
<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/2007-05-02-corn-sidebar-usat_N.htm" target="_blank">http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/2...ebar-usat_N.htm</a>
<a href="http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/05/21/house_biofuels_plan_proposes_2_bln_for_plants/" target="_blank">http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washingt...bln_for_plants/</a>
Supposedly some big decrease in CO2 content.
Catch is that statement is requires a grand assumption.
It assumes that the <a href="http://greyfalcon.net/ethanol4.png" target="_blank">entire production infrastructure to create the ethanol uses renewable energy</a>.
More or less, the CO2 reduction doesn't come from the Ethanol.
It comes from the production process.
Even Oil would look good if the entire production process used carbon free energy.