blake murphy wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:07:03 -0500, "Pete C." >
> wrote:
>
>>
>>George wrote:
>>>
>>> modom (palindrome guy) wrote:
>>> > http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/18/bu...l?ref=business
>>> >
>>> > It just ain't right.
>>> > --
>>> >
>>> > modom
>>> > ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **
>>>
>>> I do agree that the totally clueless and unplanned grinding up of food
>>> to make ethanol to keep the SUVs going wasn't such a great idea:
>>
>>Ethanol has nothing to do with keeping SUVs going, it's all about yet
>>another example of a poorly thought out plan pushed by a loud mouthed
>>environmentalist minority that once again causes more harm than good.
>>
>
> ethanol has nothing to do with 'a loudmouthed environmentalist
> minority. it has to do with pork-barrel politicians bleating about
> 'reducing dependence on foreign oil' without being willing to increase
> fleet mileage, etc.
>
>>Previous examples have been oxygenate additives to gas i.e. MTBE and the
>>resulting massive pollution,
>
> mbte was introduced to increase gasoline octane by oil refiners.
> again, nothing to do with environmentalists, who, if anything, have
> protested its use.

Wasn't it compensation for the loss of lead? Wasn't the loss of lead an
environmental thang?


--
Blinky
Killing all posts from Google Groups
The Usenet Improvement Project: http://improve-usenet.org
Need a new news feed? http://blinkynet.net/comp/newfeed.html