Cynicallous

A light, airy, effervescent, blog of grave consequence. (NOT!) Dedicated to those of us who must respond to negative stimuli by Chernobyling (entombing in concrete) our innermost thoughts.

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Location: Slaughter, Louisiana, United States

A semi-gruntled corporate reliability engineer trying to make ends meet while keeping my wife happy, and myself out of the asylum.

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

The Sweet Revenge Effects of Market Tampering by the Feds

I've always known that the ethanol subsidy introduced last year to help reduce emissions was stupid on its face. The whole thing just smacked of a giv-away to corn farmers during an election cycle. Anyway, here's a neat synopsis of everything that is wrong with the legislation.

Money quote: "Cultivating that much corn will require even more farmland. Securing it likely will require chopping down the same trees that inhale the carbon dioxide that humans and cars exhale. If Al Gore is telling the truth, this will increase global warming. So one of the environmentalists’ favorite tools for fighting global warming could actually exacerbate it."

Read the whole article here.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sorry, can't read it! I've had it with all the BS! I have to laugh or I'd cry because there is so much asininity in the world! It's a good thing that I have some semblance of a sense of humour!

6:47 PM  

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