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Kettle Moraine, WI | Food vs fuel debate Is just about dollars because dollars are often dictated by end user value. And that value comes from real results.
I am not arguing against ethanol as the MTBE issue is addressed by it. What I can't stand is bad logic used to justify it. It is easy to say it produces all these great results with its byproducts but it is selling a bill of goods with mounds and mounds of volume but the result of those coproducts are not as much as perception of 18 pounds per bushel of distillers grains. No doubt a large volume over many bushels. But when you consider those 18 pounds don't convert to much in their end use, what does how big the pile starts? Other than public perception, volume doesn't mean results.
It is like the federal government intakes and prints 4.5 trillion a year, or 15,000 per person, states another 2500 per person, and you can see government all around us. But what government does individually is not be considered by most to be a lot in their minds for that price.
I am not arguing price because unconstrained markets appear to me to be the best gauge of an item's real cost- economic and environmental. Ethanol subsidized and mandated is not a free market | |
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Our end users mind set is subtlety swayed.
