So, the media is how many years behind me?

[marlinspike]

washingtonpost.com

Gee, it only took what, 2 years for a giant news organization to come up with the same stuff I've been saying this whole time?

[GoofyTimL]

Perhaps you could entitle this thread "Fuel for thought!"

Or maybe... Fuel me once, shame on you. Fuel me twice... shame on me!

LOL

[300C_Chris]

The environmentalists have the lawmakers blindly jumping off cliffs to satisfy them.

[rickgonz]

Nice find marlinspike.
The article is well written with common sense opinions. I wish they would point to some research papers with numbers, and maybe there are papers on their groups' websites.

The article was written by leaders of two interrelated advocacy groups.
"Lester Brown is founder and president of the Earth Policy Institute. Jonathan Lewis is a climate specialist and lawyer with the Clean Air Task Force."

I am curious as to who is actually behind these research/policy advocacy non-profit groups.

[marlinspike]

Originally Posted by 300C_Chris

The environmentalists have the lawmakers blindly jumping off cliffs to satisfy them.

Well, a lot of the oil companies pushed hard for the ethanol mandate too because they tax you a certain number of cents per gallon (federal + whatever your state tax on gas is), but they only pay the government 90% of the money collected as "tax" because they only pay on the non-ethanol portion.

Oddly enough, ExxonMobil was against it. I'm not sure if they just thought it was a bad precedent or they felt they could game the system better on a freer market, but they were against it.