Replies to post #91145 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[SilverSurfer]

btw, my goal is to become a realist. Steering and Central Planning have never worked before. When the Govs decide some path, like biofuel, is a good way, realize there are special interests at work and the big crop is easy money. There is no way the wonks can anticipate all the unintended consequences. Same with their frikken WARS. Here is my idealistic bunk load for you. Please encourage President Obama to get us out of the two ill concieved wars going on, and on, and on. hge

[wbmw]

Re: There is the progressive la la land, where all the lines coverge to utopia, in the minds of the idealist and then there is the real world where government intervention screws some things up worse than they were or would have been. imho hge

There's a legitimate business rationale for taking unused crops, and instead of disposing of them, convert them to biofuels. It's a win in terms of the costs of disposing of these crops, and it's a win in a supplemental source of energy to meet our country's increasing energy demand - you know, as opposed to buying more oil from the Middle East.

But listening to your rhetoric, I might conclude that we shouldn't look at biofuels at all, because some irresponsible government loophole might abuse it, and therefore we should let these crops decompose in a dump somewhere, where our energy needs still go unresolved.

I think your cynical point of view would be a waste, and it fails to address anything. I would rather invest in biofuels *and* invest the time required to make sure the legislation enforces the kind of usage that would be beneficial for us, without leading to farming expansion in the Brazilian rainforest.

That's not utopian, ideological wishful thinking. It just makes fu*king sense.