This whole corn-ethanol morass we find ourselves in got a huge kick-start with agribusiness lobbyists and all-too-willing congress-critters co-opting a bad environmentalist idea and making the result even worse.
There is an unending litany of "unintended consequences" -- nice-sounding government programs that begat Frankenstein Monsters of financial waste, fraud and abuse. For example how government subsidies of corn-for-ethanol has directly caused the price of milk to double, wheat to triple, and rice to quadruple in the past year.
Global Warming (Climate Change, whatever), is another such Frankenstein. Al Gore has been all too happy to use (and be used by) his fellow power-hungry environmentalists to seek another foothold in the political power-structure. If not Global Warming, then it would be Nuclear Power, or the Murder of Endangered Snail Darters, or the flushing of pharmaceuticals destroying the planet, or the inclusion of phthalate esters in plastics leading to worldwide destruction, or Nigerian Delta Oil Flares... pick your poison.
(Oooops! Turns out there are A HUNDRED times more endangered lowland gorillas than the experts had previously thought...)
I wonder why people fail to see what is really going on? It's all power politics, with enviro-lobbyists squaring off against corporate-lobbyists to see who can buy more congressional juice, and has little to do with the environment.
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