tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142988674703954802.post7233336270792416902..comments2024-03-11T04:54:26.827-07:00Comments on THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Big Ethanol Finally LosesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142988674703954802.post-83641470760209612222013-11-18T13:42:26.910-08:002013-11-18T13:42:26.910-08:00"... gasoline demand in the U.S. would platea..."... gasoline demand in the U.S. would plateau as it has over the past four years, largely because of more fuel-efficient cars."<br /><br />This is a punchline... right? Fuel demand has "plateaued" because the economy is in the tank and millions of people no longer have to drive to work 5 days a week. In part because phony climate science has driven regulations into overload and is crimping and killing viable business causing even less energy use.<br /><br />NielsZooAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142988674703954802.post-48705639338120310602013-11-18T06:29:54.433-08:002013-11-18T06:29:54.433-08:00More green lunacy, cold kills the poor as we know ...More green lunacy, cold kills the poor as we know but taking away their food is greatly adding to their burden, and for the 'civilized' west it is unconscionable.<br /><br />Using a food crop to distill and hence produce ethanol to burn as motor vehicle fuel is not only the most crass stupidity. Synthetically raising grain prices and affecting all comestibles [biofuels are grown both in the EU and USA], higher food prices kill poor people in the third world and that's also a fact.<br /><br />A few Rupees may be neither here nor there to you and me but to a guy living on the bread line on a couple of dollars/week - 15 rps/day can mean the difference between starvation and a full belly - it is literally life and death. Food riots across northern Africa caused the inaptly named 'Arab spring' - how many deaths has the EU/USA biofuels policy been indirectly responsible for - 100s of thousands, millions?<br /><br />Always remember, the law of unintended consequences because the green menace never do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com