Comments on: Don’t Believe the Ethanol Hype http://www.openmarket.org/2007/07/31/dont-believe-the-ethanol-hype/ The Competitive Enterprise Institute Blog Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:56:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Ron Steenblik (Global Subsidies Initiative) http://www.openmarket.org/2007/07/31/dont-believe-the-ethanol-hype/#comment-36402 Ron Steenblik (Global Subsidies Initiative) Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:24:14 +0000 http://www.openmarket.org/2007/07/31/dont-believe-the-ethanol-hype/#comment-36402 Well said, Stan. And here is a link to the study mentioned in the Rolling Stone article. The GSI is a program under the IISD, by the way: http://www.globalsubsidies.org/ Well said, Stan. And here is a link to the study mentioned in the Rolling Stone article. The GSI is a program under the IISD, by the way:

http://www.globalsubsidies.org/

]]> By: Stan Cotton http://www.openmarket.org/2007/07/31/dont-believe-the-ethanol-hype/#comment-36299 Stan Cotton Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:00:38 +0000 http://www.openmarket.org/2007/07/31/dont-believe-the-ethanol-hype/#comment-36299 How about a Cane Mutiny to take on the agri-biz propaganda mill. The back room boys want you to believe billions in tax-payer subsidies is achieving energy independence, It’s not. The fixers want you to believe that a 54 cents a gallon tax on imported sugar cane ethanol is helping farmers. How’s that helping farmers? They sell all the ethanol they can make now, and it’s not enough and they pocket a 51 cents per gallon subsidy to boot. All that ethanol tariff does is stop motorists from buying cheap, renewable ethanol from our best friends. If it was just greed, that’s one thing. Keeping an affordable, clean renewable energy source like cane ethanol out of consumers’ gas tanks is unpatriotic. How about a Cane Mutiny to take on the agri-biz propaganda mill.

The back room boys want you to believe billions in tax-payer subsidies is achieving energy independence, It’s not. The fixers want you to believe that a 54 cents a gallon tax on imported sugar cane ethanol is helping farmers. How’s that helping farmers? They sell all the ethanol they can make now, and it’s not enough and they pocket a 51 cents per gallon subsidy to boot. All that ethanol tariff does is stop motorists from buying cheap, renewable ethanol from our best friends.

If it was just greed, that’s one thing. Keeping an affordable, clean renewable energy source like cane ethanol out of consumers’ gas tanks is unpatriotic.

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