Posted by paul on November 29, 2011 at 06:38:01 from (76.77.196.252):
In Reply to: Re: Ethanol posted by LAA on November 29, 2011 at 06:11:14:
That is both a funny & sad comment. Oh boy.
The oil industry started in the early 1900's, and was much, much, much more subsidied and supported with govt help than ethanol ever will be. Many of those big oil tax breaks and subsidies continue to this day. Ethanol is a new technology, and as with any such, cannot compete with the well entrenched and subsidised and aided older energy supplies. You can't start a new infrastructure and compete with a well established and govt subsidised one - what a foolish thought.
Compare apples to apples, and big oil has had way more govt assistance, and continues to have such, than ethanol ever will.
Just this year Congress voted to save the $12 billion (a drop in your govt subsidy bucket) that were supposed to be cut from Big Oil subsidies, while at the same time voting to cut the Ethanol blenders credit. You Big Oil guys got it on easy street, got it so fat & easy. You been getting govt help for so long you don't even know what you are getting!
Once again, ag takes it on the chin, while Big Oil gets the govt gravy.
Myself, I'd prefer all businesses make it or fail on their own, but govt doesn't operate that way, they pick & choose and throw money around. And wwhen they do, it's unfair to support one subsidy but not the other. As I said, I'm all for eliminating any help ethanol gets, as long as we eliminate all the help Big Oil gets, and elminate the 33% help Big Wind gets, and elminate the help coal & hydro and natural gas get......
The govt subsidies everything, especially Big Oil, pretty hard to say otherwise with a straight face!
So long as they do, all the other energy technologies need to recieve a roughly equal subsidy to get established and to compete in the real world.
I too wish govt would go back to police, fire, infrastructure building, regulate fair business practices, and otherwise let the marketplace take it's own course. But - that ain't how it is. Big Oil gets their big pice of the govt pie, the other energy sources need to get something too.
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