[Healeys] Ethenol from Time Magazine

[WILLIAM B LAWRENCE]

One thing I forgot to mention about the price of ethanol is that it is 
subsidized to the tune of about a buck a gallon. If you had to pay full 
price it could never compete with petroleum. Because of the subsidy there is 
a new ethanol plant being built in Des Moines for close to a billion 
dollars. Your (our) tax dollars at work.

Bill Lawrence


>From: "Alan Seigrist" <healey.nut at gmail.com>
>To: "WILLIAM B LAWRENCE" <ynotink at msn.com>, 57healey at gmail.com, 
>f9cougar at yahoo.com, HealeyHundred at comcast.net, healeys at autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: [Healeys] Ethenol from Time Magazine
>Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:07:27 +0200
>
>US ethanol is the biggest scam and ground zero of everything that's
>wrong with the US government.
>
>No one, I repeat, no one supports this including those on the left
>(environmentalists) or right (cigar chomping wildcatters).  The only
>people who support this are scumbag politicians from corn states who
>view this as a hand out to Conagra and Monsanto in exchange for
>campaign contributions and board directorships after they leave
>congress.  The only ethanol that works is from sugar cane, which is
>not grown in large quantities in the US.
>
>The worst of the lot is Sen. Chuck Grassley, who is a complete
>embarrasment for the Republican Party and a total ignorant jackass
>with more power than his pea brain can process.