Re: Fuel Question - 1952 Packard 200 Touring Sedan

Posted by RogerDetroit On 2015/5/22 11:27:34

Hello Owen:

And guess who agrees with you - yes, Al Gorehttp://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703572404575634753486416076
Wall Street Journal
November 27, 2010

"It is not a good policy to have these massive subsidies for first-generation ethanol," Al Gore told a gathering of clean energy financiers in Greece this week. The benefits of ethanol are "trivial," he added, but "It's hard once such a program is put in place to deal with the lobbies that keep it going."

And his reason for first supporting ethanol were political. "One of the reasons I made that mistake is that I paid particular attention to the farmers in my home state of Tennessee, and I had a certain fondness for the farmers in the state of Iowa because I was about to run for President."

"Mr. Gore's mea culpa underscores the degree to which ethanol has become a purely political machine: It serves no purpose other than re-electing incumbents and transferring wealth to farm states and ethanol producers."

So tell me why, exactly, does this madness continue?