A reference to “Damn Yankees” for the young folk…Concerning corn versus sugar-based ethanol as an additive to gasoline and an alternative energy source, Dubya needs to protect our corn-producing farmers in Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Nebraska, Minnesota, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and South Dakota on the one hand.
However, on the other hand, he has to make sure he can keep Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva happy without reducing the 54-cent-a-gallon tariff on sugar-based ethanol from that country, keeping our producers happy also.
Still, I think the following from this link is particularly important…
Though corn has broad political support as a feedstock in the United States, it is one of the least efficient sources of ethanol. For example, ethanol yields per acre for French sugar beets and Brazilian sugarcane are roughly double those for American corn.What do I think?
I think President Brainless will just smile for the cameras, do and say nothing of importance as usual (unless he screws up somehow, which is highly possible) and just punt the whole thing over for Cheney to handle when he gets out of the hospital; “Big Time” will just end up subcontracting everything to Halliburton so they can set up a black market sugar ethanol operation that no one will know about, and cut everyone else out of the picture (except Halliburton’s shareholders, of course).
Remember, you heard it here first!
Update 3/9/07: Dubya's "biofuels buddy"??
2 comments:
you realize, of course, that now that they know you've figured out their dirty little scam, you're going to have to be looking over your shoulder constantly... borrowing the famous seinfeld quote, "no soup for YOU...!"
I'll just stay out of dark or dimly-lit parking garages for a little while - should probably hire a food tester too while I'm at it.
I know you have more knowledge of this area of the world than I do...thanks for validating this in a way.
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