Comments on: House Democrats battle new emissions standards… again http://minnesotaindependent.com/35499/house-democrats-battle-new-emissions-standards%e2%80%a6again News. Politics. Media. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:48:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Eric Ferguson http://minnesotaindependent.com/35499/house-democrats-battle-new-emissions-standards%e2%80%a6again/comment-page-1#comment-31391 Eric Ferguson Tue, 26 May 2009 16:43:17 +0000 http://minnesotaindependent.com/?p=35499#comment-31391 It's not surprising an industry that feels threatened would lobby like crazy to defeat new laws, and people who have invested in corn-based ethanol will be uninterested in recognizing its inevitable buggy-whip-in-an-automobile-world future. It might make sense, instead of propping up corn, to subsidize the transition to making ethanol from something more ecologically and economically sensible. Not that I don't see potential hazards doing that, but it's a thoguht. It’s not surprising an industry that feels threatened would lobby like crazy to defeat new laws, and people who have invested in corn-based ethanol will be uninterested in recognizing its inevitable buggy-whip-in-an-automobile-world future. It might make sense, instead of propping up corn, to subsidize the transition to making ethanol from something more ecologically and economically sensible.

Not that I don’t see potential hazards doing that, but it’s a thoguht.

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