Sentences with phrase «like ethanol subsidies»

The denial of market forces in the US by all politicians, in favor of market farces like ethanol subsidies, in a way emphasis the effectiveness of prices as one instrument.

Not exact matches

When you go to Washington to get stuff, sometimes you get the wrong stuff, like subsidies for corn ethanol — the wrong feedstock for the wrong fuel.

Trillions are spent on war where oil is the key political factor, hundreds of billions on subsidies for rich companies that reap huge short - term profits, both in fossil fuels and pseudo-green technologies like corn ethanol and biodiesel.

How exactly does that rule out that Big Agra concerns like ADM weren't behind a major expansion of the ethanol quota mandates and the attendant subsidies that went along with them?

Subsidies are necessary in the incubation phase, but oil is a «mature» industry, and renewable energy technologies like ethanol, wind and solar are «proven and established» industries.

They say the technological fixes also distract from more challenging social reforms like slowing the rate of population growth, shifting away from crops like corn ethanol that don't put food on the table, or ending subsidies for livestock production, which currently eats up an appalling 75 percent of the world's agricultural land.

In practice, «alternative energy» subsidies have overwhelmingly gone to things like corn ethanol, nuclear energy, «clean coal,» and hydrogen; the way things are going we can expect liquid coal to hop on the bandwagon as well.

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.