America needs therapy

David Honig honig at sprynet.com
Mon Oct 1 11:11:30 PDT 2001


At 11:33 AM 10/1/01 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
>As for ethanol, which you cite, if it's so splendid an alternative, one
>would think that ADM could survive without such lavish corporate welfare.
>
>http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa241es.html

You shouldn't hold pork-politics against a technology.

Ethanol *is* a great fuel from a number of angles, but it *is*
(currently) more expensive than petrol.  There are a number of
fuel sources like that, just waiting to become desirable if/when
petrol prices rise.  (Modulo the inertia of conversion costs and 
distribution problems.)  

dh





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