Comments on: Updated: Unintended Consequence of Enforcing Ethanol https://barelyablog.com/unintended-consequence-of-pushing-ethanol/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: John Danforth https://barelyablog.com/unintended-consequence-of-pushing-ethanol/comment-page-1/#comment-2700 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:55:09 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=584#comment-2700 More efficient is always cleaner!

Low density energy sources are bad for the environment and bad for humans. For proof, try living as humans did 1,000 years ago. You will have a hard time making metals and chemicals, let alone just pumping water with solar-derived power in any form (wind, ethanol, wood, animal power).

One of the best things about automobiles besides the lower cost and convenience, was a cleaner environment gotten by the elimination of horse poop all over everything.

There is no alternative energy. There is energy, and there are fuel sources. “Alternative Energy” is a code phrase for a stock and tax swindle. And the only reason anyone can afford to fiddle with them now is because we have a source of cheap, abundant energy to produce them with. Take that away, and it’s cheaper to just forget it than to try to make anything with the power generated by the end product. (Try making aluminum with wind power and see how far you get. You need lots and lots of electricity.)

Energy, and access to it, are literally our standard of living, because energy makes everything that is worth having. The end result of these idiotic policies is a further collapse of our standard of living. Which means, economic suicide.

Every rent-seeking ‘researcher’ taking money in the field presumably had to take a thermodynamics class at least once. That means they are liars, and deserve to be treated as the treasonous scoundrels that they are.

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By: Andrew T. https://barelyablog.com/unintended-consequence-of-pushing-ethanol/comment-page-1/#comment-2697 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:00:02 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=584#comment-2697 I do agree with the March 26 update, Ilana. Nuclear power all the way.

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By: Pam Maltzman https://barelyablog.com/unintended-consequence-of-pushing-ethanol/comment-page-1/#comment-2694 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:58:47 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=584#comment-2694 I’ve already noticed the prices of foodstuffs rising… a lot of people are going to be hurting when even chicken and eggs become too expensive.

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By: Steve Hogan https://barelyablog.com/unintended-consequence-of-pushing-ethanol/comment-page-1/#comment-2693 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:19:17 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=584#comment-2693 The entire ethanol scam has one purpose only: to enrich agri-business cronies of those in power in return for campaign cash. If food prices rise and the environment suffers as a result, it’s okay with those whose pockets are being lined.

If the average American was independent thinking and ambitious enough to spend ten minutes informing himself on the issue, he’d conclude that he’s being taken for a ride. But he doesn’t, because he’s been “educated” in government schools. When one’s head has been filled with nothing but state propaganda, getting duped about biofuels becomes mere child’s play.

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By: Andrew T. https://barelyablog.com/unintended-consequence-of-pushing-ethanol/comment-page-1/#comment-2692 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:19:35 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=584#comment-2692 I’m for solar, wind, and water-based energy, but only through private industry, of course. Why not use whatever renewable sources available to gradually supplement our main, non-renewable source, oil, which so often drives our march to unjust war?

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