March 28, 2008
I'm afraid that I tend to toggle back and forth a bit on subsidized biofuels, just as I did with the space program.
But I'd like to see the former go private, just as the latter is starting to.
And, ethanol. Ugh. Homey don't play that.
But I think we need to remember that all of the alternative fuels are in their infancy. Of course they are not efficient yet. We're still identifying, um, as Edison might have put it, "ways to do it that don't work."
That doesn't mean that there isn't a way that will.
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I meant corn ethanol, of course. And I may feel differently about those systems that use every part of the corn plant, including the stalks, etc.
Though I do share Glenn Reynolds' squeamishness about making fuel out of foodstuffs.
The point is, we aren't there yet in terms of information-gathering, so it isn't time to start throwing rocks.
Posted by: Attila Girl at March 29, 2008 11:33 AM (BYH4x)
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The old dictum that the government which governs least, governs best, is quite applicable to the debate on subsidizing anything, including biofuels.
People get subsidies not because their product should be saved or promoted, but because they have friends in Congress.
And the way the government moves (slowly, and listening to only the subset of the people that buy lunches for Congressmen), we will likely find ourselves years down a path that is ultimately unworkable before we learn it's a bad idea.
Posted by: John at March 30, 2008 09:43 AM (vVb85)
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