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| If you are really concerned about the troops, this guy has an idea or two for you.
http://www.consumerenergyreport.com/2010/12/23/whos-been-naughty-et... he says:
Conclusion
I call on the ethanol industry to stop this hypocrisy. If the industry is so concerned about soldiers fighting in the Middle East, please do the following:
1. Stop exporting ethanol.
2. Start working on getting laws passed into law that only E85 can be sold in Midwestern states where ethanol is produced in abundance.
3. Get laws passed that farm equipment and trucks involved in the production of ethanol must be operated on ethanol.
Then — and only then — can you start to claim any sort of moral high ground over soldiers dying in the Middle East. Given the situation as it really is, your use of this as a tactic to justify more subsidies is repulsive. It is a dishonor to soldiers who — to the extent they are fighting to protect access to oil — are protecting the diesel that goes in your farm equipment.
At the end of the day, this is all about money. Ethanol interests do and say the things they do so they can keep the tax dollars flowing in their direction. All lobbies do that. But I would submit that other lobbies aren’t quite so blatantly dishonest and misleading in presenting their arguments. Some are content to argue the points and hope that their case is compelling. As we have seen from various ethanol interests, they must not feel that their case is compelling enough just to let the facts speak for themselves. Otherwise, why would they have to lie so much?
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Ethanol is the problem
