Bfgrn
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The churlish cry of "but moommmm they're doing it tooooo" is an irrelevant red herring.
Stupid shit like converting corn into ETOH is a net energy loss, which ends up expending even more of those eeeeevil conventional fuels you whackjobs profess to detest so much.
What's the matter Jethro, does my question use too many big words? Do we or don't we subsidize the oil industry? Ask mommy...
Does the oil industry generate a useful commodity that is more efficient then any "green" technology by a factor of three? Is it a product that is vital to the continued operation of this country? In other words if all the green technology in the world disappeared right now would anybody notice? How about the oil industry?
Oil and coal, the dirty twins cannot generate ANY low cost energy unless they externalize massive amounts of their cost to bring their product to market. And we are only talking dollars. If you factor in the HUMAN costs, they are the biggest burden on the planet.
They twins can't compete without government subsidies and forcing taxpayers clean up after them, fix the roads they destroy with overweight haul trucks, and absorb costs the twins don't factor into THEIR costs.