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Re:White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help mee... by exabrial on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @10:42AM (#27050443)
Couldn't say it better. Subsidies don't work out the way you want. Look at ethanol: it's an incredibly dirty fuel source (using tons of diesel to make "fuel", smart!) but the ethanol lobby and unions have entrenched themselves permanently so its not worth the fight.
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Re:White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help mee... by galangalalgol on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @10:55AM (#27050648)
It just occurred to me that the EV transition will also affect food prices, that should be interesting. Big agro and big oil batting against it. Not sure how we are making even the little progress we are.
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Re:White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help mee... by thinkcontext on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @02:01PM (#27053356)
Indeed, 40% of US corn is used for ethanol so the potential effect could be huge. However, there's a lot of movement afoot in the ethanol industry for using carbon capture. My guess is given the Ag lobby biofuel will be retained for some time.
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Re:White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help mee... by telchar on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @12:36PM (#27052150)
What unions are involved in ethanol? That's primarily the corn farmer/big ag corps' interest.
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