The fat guy is obviously not American. If he were, he wouldn't be giving the little man anything. Instead he would have a long, rambling, hyperventilatey speech about how he's protecting the little guy's rights by not giving him any help.
It was a little passe, as it was produced under the ethanol boom of 2007-2008.
As the Italian says below, yes, ethanol had unintended consequences. Not only did it skew the markets against food prices, it also required more energy to make than was retrieved in burning as fuel. It served two, vital interest of the American electorate, however: cleaner emissions and farm subsidy patronage.
To be clear, corn ethanol had unintended consequences.
The farm lobby and Big Ag like Monsanto talked the Bush administration into supporting corn, and the market followed blindly. The same money into cellulosic eth would have yielded a sustainable and scalable fuel source from plant waste by now.
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As the Italian says below, yes, ethanol had unintended consequences. Not only did it skew the markets against food prices, it also required more energy to make than was retrieved in burning as fuel. It served two, vital interest of the American electorate, however: cleaner emissions and farm subsidy patronage.
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The farm lobby and Big Ag like Monsanto talked the Bush administration into supporting corn, and the market followed blindly.
The same money into cellulosic eth would have yielded a sustainable and scalable fuel source from plant waste by now.
Yet another way they fucked us over. =/
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