


New proposal would allow up to 15 percent ethanol in fuel









II. EPA: Problem? What Problem?








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RE: 2001+?
By tng on 7/6/2011 3:22:40 PM , Rating: 2
Ethanol has to do with the corn lobby.
Well my thinking on that was that automakers would be beholding to big oil, congress would be beholding to the corn lobby and the farm lobby. I would trust automakers before the US Congress.....

Libertarians call this mob rule. Have you've just made owners of older cars second class citizens?
Not really, since I believe in running a car until it dies. It really has less to do with mob rules and more to do with what sells. If the public perception of a automaker is bad because of problems caused by ethanol, most of the public will not make the distinction. How does a automaker fight that? They lobby against it in congress.

Yes I am sure that there is plenty of influence at the EPA by the corn and farm lobbies, and that is pushing this even though congress finally saw the light. I don't think that you can punish the lobbies, they are doing what they do legally (hopefully).

It is Agencies like the EPA that are not held accountable for the crap that they pass. We can hold the fire to the congress for the laws that they pass and they will sometimes repeal in response. An agency that passes a regulation has no such effective feedback, and does not report to the public.

