(H/T – Mark Belling)
As the title says, they’re back, and they’re worse than ever. Not only will Senate Bill 380 require that a significant portion of fuel sold in Wisconsin be made from overpriced corn, which has already started to ripple price increases through the entire food chain, but starting in 2015, permanently park most of the vehicles currently on the road by mandating that percentage of corn-a-hole be higher than what the fuel systems in those vehicles can handle.
Especially egregious is the role that Luther Olsen (RepubicRAT), whose brother is in the process of making his fortune in the ethanol business, is playing.
I’ll just hit “publish” now before I start unleasing an AoS-worthy string of expletives.
Revisions/extensions (2:49 pm 1/17/2008) – Allow me to continue with a further rant brought up from the comments….
(Current engines) “can” (be modified to run on E25, E85, E100, et al), but how much is that going to run me? $500? $1000? Why should I have to pay to retrofit my 2004 Subaru (or 2009 non-flex-fuel Chevy, or 2002 Saturn, or…you get the idea) just so I can keep my car on the road while burning more fuel?
Why should I be forced to buy a new lawn mower, or a new snow blower, or a new chainsaw, or a new boat engine (assuming, of course, they’ll be able to handle E25; many of those already have problems handling E10)?
I’m (barely) able to afford this “upgrade”. What about those that can’t? Are we going to tell them, “Tough luck. Hop on that bus so we can throw more money down that rat hole. Oh, and relearn the ‘joys’ of push mowers and shoveling.”? Are we going to force those that can pay for the “upgrade” to pay twice, thrice, and even more so the poor can stay in the 21st Century? Oh hell no.
Steve,
Any car can be retrofitted to run alcohol or any mix of petrol and alcohol.
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They “can”, but how much is that going to run me? $500? $1000? Why should I have to pay to retrofit my 2004 Subaru (or 2009 non-flex-fuel Chevy, or 2002 Saturn, or…you get the idea) just so I can keep my car on the road while burning more fuel?
Why should I be forced to buy a new lawn mower, or a new snow blower, or a new chainsaw, or a new boat engine (assuming, of course, they’ll be able to handle E25; many of those already have problems handling E10)?
I’m (barely) able to afford this “upgrade”. What about those that can’t? Are we going to tell them, “Tough luck. Hop on that bus so we can throw more money down that rat hole. Oh, and relearn the ‘joys’ of push mowers and shoveling.”? Are we going to force those that can pay for the “upgrade” to pay twice, thrice, and even more so the poor can stay in the 21st Century? Oh hell no.
Luther Olson is a whore…and has been for a long time for the cornahole industry. Where’s the left DEMANDING he be fined, etc. like they did to Ziegler?
Olson has a much bigger conflict of interest here than Ziegler ever did.
Memo to WI residents. Last one out, turn out the lights. It won’t matter to Doyle, Olson, libtards, et. al. They’re already in the dark.
Funny you said the Ace of Spades rant. I was thinking in my head more along the lines of the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler. There’s some great rants over there.
I could’ve said that too, but stupid me didn’t have those dogs on my radar screen. Time to correct an oversight.
AB,
How dare you insult whores like that? The libtards won’t assail Olson because they support his cause.
And we are suprised by Olsen’s actions? When your chief of staff had her caucus legal bills paid by the state and another staff member is the wife of the legislative aide who had one of the largest pay raises in history – http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=268690 – you expect the ethics to be a high point of this office. Other than ethanol and the Graduated Driver’s License, Olsen has done little more than cash paychecks and toe the RINO line.