Some are just (chosen) to fail

Hey, do you know who is against California’s push for alternative/green energy? Alternative/green energy is, that’s who. Well, Big Ethanol is, to be precise.

The California Air Resources Board under the Mao-like vision of AB 32 is attempting sweeping changes to reduce carbon emissions in fuels and this includes a cradle-to-grave effort in energy development and production.

CARB regulators would establish standards which would grade how fuels are developed. For instance, if bringing a fuel to market requires a large carbon foot print because of the production of fertilizer or transportation costs or the development of said fuel requires clearing CO2-absorbing rain forests or the taking of what would otherwise be arable land for food production then that fuel will be down-graded. You can see how ethanol/bio-fuels would not fair well in this type of classroom.

Big Ethanol, as you can imagine is not pleased by these developments and feels they are being unfairly singled-out and that they “offer a bridge to the newer generation of biofuels that show promise but are not ready to fill gaps in the market.”

Jeesh. We’ve been building this damn bridge for 30-40 years and we really aren’t getting any closer.

And, of course, the irony of the situation where the governmental apparatus that has propped up the ethanol industry for years has now trained its sights on that very same industry and may prove to oversee its demise is not lost on us. Pickin’ the winners and losers, baby!

Full schadenfreude-inducing article, here.