Ethanol subsidies could be safe for a while.There's a really nice explanation of why subsidies are hard to abolish in Price of Oil: Hidden Oil Subsidies from Tree Hugger.com and on Huffington Post. I couldn't put it any more clearly than in the first paragraph.
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The problem with the Tree Hugger article is that it provides no links to the articles on oil subsidies it cites. That makes it hard to determine, for example, whether the estimates include subsidies to road transport generally (as some of the ones that people cite do), as well as the value of externalities.
Posted by Ron Steenblik | July 17, 2008 6:44 AM
Posted on July 17, 2008 06:44
Hi Ron,
Yes it is a problem but I thought that it would be worth throwing the ideas into the pot. There's a whole other story about getting traditional journalists to put links into their output.
Posted by Simon Robinson
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July 17, 2008 9:27 AM
Posted on July 17, 2008 09:27