Quote from Dr. Zhivodka:
Oh they quite considered it...
It's not the "tree hugger" crowd that advocated that stupid POS. It's the mid-west republican US senators. Red-Republican-grain-growing-states are the beneficiaryâs of whole the Ethanol debacle.
Tree Huggers advocated Ethanol because it supposedly burns cleaner. Never for the cost of it.
It was the pos Democrat Durbin from Illinois that pushed it the strongest because his state is a big corn growing state.
http://durbin.senate.gov/issues/energy.cfm
"Helped lead successful fights over more than 20 years that helped build a viable renewable fuels industry in America to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, by securing an extension of the federal tax incentives for ethanol use, expanding ethanol's role in clean air programs, and establishing a nationwide standard for minimum ethanol use. "
John