News from 1930: “Germany requires gasoline to be blended with 2.5% alcohol to benefit potato farmers.”
There wasn’t any environmental rationalization for Germany’s decision in 1930 to require gasoline to contain 2.5% alcohol. The politicians were just throwing the farmers a bone. That’s the the same reason politicians support biofuels today. The environmental patter is for the suckers.
Previously
- Peak coal
- Leading biofuels company goes under; Congressmen demand more biofuels
- Ethanol production creates 15% of Iowa’s greenhouse gases
- Time Magazine, Paul Krugman Admit Biofuels are Snake Oil
- Rolling Stone: “Ethanol Scam: Ethanol Hurts the Environment And Is One of America’s Biggest Political Boondoggles”
- Oil sands petroleum extraction is already profitable
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It’s still a concern today in Germany, and sadly, it’s even more of a problem than gasoline (benzin, as they call it) since there is a crop that is raised specifically for its oil content, for diesel.
The rapeseed plant (a brilliant yellow flower on a thin, wiry stem that resembles a weed) gets subsidized through a tremendous gasoline tax, making the diesel lower cost at the pump for the consumer, while giving the farmers of the country the cash raised through the tax for raising that crop.
Needless to say that diesels are popular over there, and gasoline engines are usually very small displacement turbocharged mills for increased economy.
Insane.
[rq=595897,0,blog][/rq]Yet more of what I was talking about