Ethanol Subsidies End...Sort Of

http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/01/ethanol-subsidies-not-gone-just-hid...

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• ethanol subsidies
• ethanol gas
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• cenk uygur

[leptonsoup337]

"Free market economics!"

"Let the market decide!"

"Keep government out of the market and let the INVISIBLE HAND (God or THE Market?) do its thing!"

(***mumble mumble*** and subsidize everything our buddies own ***mumble***)

[strongback]

20 billion over 20 years? Oil companies laugh at such a low number

[invaliduser1000]

COOL ,So lets spend the $20billion on Saudi oil,,, Your an idiot ugyer

[terrelya83]

I noticed Barack Obama is starting to sound a lot more progressive lately. Now I see why. Hopefully all of this does keep up. I agree with Cenk 150%.

[tvsinesperanto]

Ethonol turns fuel to shit. I refuse to use that crap & always buy 98 octane premium instead. The 92 octane with 10% ethanol gets me around 19-22 litres/100Km, while premium 98 octane with 0% ethanol gets me 12-13. Well worth the extra 6-7 cents per litre. It also gives the car more power & runs smoother & cooler. The guy who decided ethanol should be put in fuel should catch gonorrhoea and die.

[Houshalter]

ALL government subsidies need to end. This doesn't even stop a small fraction of the wealth that is squandered by government.

[samoka10]

Cenk is 1000% right here. I hate how we subsidized oil and the Gop will still say they love the "free" market. I'm surprised Coburn was not for it. I usually think of him as an ass kisser for the rich.

[Bronzecop]

@chrlpolk Oh dont like the enforcement of treating certain people fairly in your public shop on the property that you bought? You can always move to Russia, there are no non-whites there (almost). You bet I'm going to call him racist for that, "infringes my property rights" XD LMAO ROTF!!! The Patriot Act? Means nothing to people like me because I have nothing to hide, nor will I ever commit organized crime.

[AMagicalUsername]

@595o what was the percentage of cars that run on mostly ethanol blends? Less than fail percent? LOL Fuck corn and fuck ethanol. You can buy electric cars now, for about the same price of finding an e85 piece of shit.

[VictoryCough]

This is Keynesian economics at work! It takes more fossil fuels to produce it than energy it provides!

How is it any different than any other energy subsidy the congress doles out?

They pumped millions into Solyndra, they went bankrupt and workers came one day to find it boarded up.

Who suffered more, the workers or Solyndra's CEO's?

[semperFi4ever100]

@dffykvn Let me put it this way, I support freedom for everyone to build up his own business and do whatever the hell he likes with it. That's it. Obviously the US isn't that much of a free market, bailouts, corruption and GSEs aren't capitalism, it's corporatism. And yeah, I do hate corporatism.

[Parralyzed]

@waltermh111 yeah that makes sense, thanks