Sentences with phrase «ethanol subsidies making»

Are ethanol subsidies making Earth a better place?

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Corn ethanol would have never been able to make it on its thermodynamic merits, and w / o subsidies would have been dead in the water years ago *.

I don't see how our subsidies for making ethanol from corn, for example, spill over to the production of high fructose corn syrup.

He's terrible on trade, supporting maintenance of the tariff on imported Brazilian ethanol made from sugarcane, and has pushed for a dramatic expansion of the subsidies for ethanol production in this country.

The efforts we've made to criminalize the act of checking out are scandalous and in a different world, one without ethanol subsidies or ear marks, we might see an end to it.

We should phase out subsidies for corn ethanol as cellulose and other forms for making alternate fuels come on line.

You don't need to be a rocket scientist to understand that there are natural cycles and that they milk them to scare us so they can tax and control us and get us to pay subsidies and allow tax credits so they, and their contributors can get rich off of windmills, solar panels, ethanol and whatever schemes they have to save the world from a made up problem that does not exist.

But the models fail to account for dynamic reactions to a corn crop reduction (in this case a simple and very cost efficient response would be to end corn ethanol subsidies, thus redirecting corn to food rather than fuel, ending an inefficient industry and encouraging ethanol industries in tropical nations using sugar cane, which makes a lot more sense than corn ethanol).

There's money to be made in developing alternative energy — even when it's not so green, like the ethanol industry that has been collecting subsidies for decades.

And the fuel is much cheaper, because the shipping cost of locally made ethanol is much lower, and because part of the 51 cent per gallon ethanol blending subsidy is being passed on to consumers.

But a farmer can grow more corn, or less cattle, and send corn to an ethanol plant, and still make money, especially if there's a subsidy.

But dropping the subsidy makes Brazil's cane sugar ethanol more viable on the market — and that is a more environmentally sound fuel.

... Many people argue that making corn - based ethanol is more of an agricultural subsidy for farmers than it is a sound environmental policy.Things get even dodgier for biofuels when you look at the land area that would be needed to grow fuel crops.

Even subsidies that seem quite good at first usually later turn out to be bad (corn ethanol) because of the law of unintended consequences, and governments are very bad at picking the right technologies because of political interference, pressure by special interests and multi-year lag in decision - making.

In today's speech, Mr. Bloomberg called for four key measures on climate change: a vast increase in energy - related research and development; an end to certain agricultural subsidies, especially that of corn - based ethanol; an increase in federal fuel efficiency standards for vehicles; and laws to make pollution more expensive for companies.

Corn - ethanol will continue to be produced if it makes economic sense, without tax subsidies.

Does it ever make sense for the government to select one «winner», such as corn ethanol, for subsidies?