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Re: [PLUG] Survey: who drives a stick shift?
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Ethanol fuel makes sense for brazil, which uses sugar cane and gets a
very high return for the energy invested but most of the crops that
are used in the us do not have that advantage. There would be no
ethanol fuel industry in the us if it wasn't for the big government
funding using our tax dollars. So now besides wasting our money on a
fuel that is almost a wash energy wise, we now have to contend with
grain and food prices increasing due to competition with the ethanol
producers.
Edward Smola
On Oct 5, 2007, at 10:33 AM, Art Alexion wrote:
On Thursday 04 October 2007 19:37:36 Stephen Gran wrote:
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 05:12:18PM -0400, Art Alexion said:
I wonder how much of that has to do with emissions controls
required in
the US. I find current environmental science so flawed in that a
supposed "green" solution causes unintended problems more severe
than the
original problem. So, we mandate emissions controls that result in
greater fuel consumption. Net benefit?
Funny, I just assumed it was because the US governement panders to
auto
makers and lets them produce junk cars that guzzle fuel for no
reason.
Trust me, there's no shortage of environmental regulations over here.
If anything, they're stricter, as far as I can tell.
My guess is that it's like ethanol fuel that consumes more fossil
fuel to make
than it replaces. Or cloth diapers, the laundering of which causes
more
environmental damage than disposable diapers. Jeff's right; follow
the
money.
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