WAKE
UP CONGRESS: Study shows hybrids better than E85
Friday,
November 09, 2007
Time
to move ethanol subsidies to hybrids and clean diesels?
Rising oil prices
coupled with concerns about global climate change are
driving debate about which fuels and engines should be
used to power the 17 million new cars and trucks sold each
year. Advanced diesel and hybrid technologies show very
well in this study, in terms of benefits to the individual
and society overall. E85 simply doesn’t provide the same
benefits. —John
Graham, senior author and dean of the Pardee RAND Graduate
School (more)
Just more confirmation of the crappy job that
Congress is doing?
Study-after-study continues to question corn-based
ethanol, yet Congress provides billions of dollars to
subsidize corn-based ethanol. On the other, buyers of
Toyota's hybrid vehicles - vehicles that can greatly
benefit society - no longer qualify for tax credits?
When is the corny Congress going to start doing the right
thing, instead of the earmarked, pork-barreled,
lobbyist-influenced thing?
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