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Sebastian Kennedy's Take on The End of Oil, or Fuck Environmentalists
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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Ethanol policy is a pure hand-out to corn states. It takes more energy to make a gallon of ethanol than the produced gallon of ethanol contains. The only reason it's cheap is because it's subsidized or produced with crops that are subsidized (and probably over-produced as a result). I guess brazil has cheap sugarcane, but I'll bet that when you tally up the costs, the program subsidizes sugar cane producers, and probably contributes to deforestation.
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I think that Brazil looked at in terms of the dependence on places like Venezuela and the Middle East for its energy. The self-sufficiency is worth the extra costs.
And frankly, I'd find it worth it to be able to tell Saudi Arabia to fuck off instead of constantly kissing its ass because we need its oil so badly.
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