In article >,
George > wrote:

> Miche wrote:
>
> >> You forget about using up all of the corn to inefficiently make ethanol
> >> to keep the SUVs going which increased the price of feed.
> >
> > Then lobby to get biofuel companies to use other feedstock for their
> > processes than corn. There's plenty of waste plant material that would
> > work, but the fuel companies aren't using it.
>
> Its more than that. Ethanol production is great corporate and SUV
> welfare. There is a proposal to build a plant locally and part of the
> deal would be a >$100 Million subsidy to be pulled out of the taxpayers
> pockets to build the facility plus an operating subsidy and waiver of
> liquid fuels taxes to be able to sell the ethanol below its actual cost.
> If its such a great thing why isn't private enterprise doing it
> completely on its own?

Not a question I can answer. I don't live in the USA.

Miche

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