Why Ethanol is worse than pointless - it's evil

boy do I feel dumb - Read this fella's post re: E85 - much of it was in my "the lie of ethanol" post, but this is much more detailed and has some other interesting points.

http://alt-e.blogspot.com/

My big take away is that of *course* politicians are pumping E85 - because their bosses (the lobbyists) are telling them to do so, and they and the american public are too stupid to understand why!

Here's why:
- When an automaker makes a vehicle that is "E85 compliant," they don't have to pay extra for CAFE standards.
- E85 compliant vehicles burn regular old gasoline fine and dandy, in case you didn't know that.
- The only way US automakers are making money any more is by selling cheap gas guzzlers.
- Thus, E85 is the way to make big gas-guzzling vehicles *even cheaper* relative to the competition (ie. fuel efficient vehicles).
- And like I mentioned, the american public and their politicians are too stupid to understand why E85 is a lie, so they're all hoping this E85 thing is going to save the day, when in reality E85 will make things worse.

Now, E85 is much worse than a red herring, it's a super smart way the evil automakers can make a little more profit before peak oil hits. Like GW, they must be evangelicals hoping the end comes soon.