A Real World Look at Alcohol in Your Tank

I don't have a direct involvement in this problem as my Kia people carrier (my only vehicle) doesn't seem to have a problem. It has over 120,000 miles on it in 13 years.

I wonder if there's a possibility of a Class Action lawsuit against the petroleum companies and the EPA and other government agencies involved. They have jointly conspired to sell a product that they know causes damage to personal property.
 
frankdamp said:
I wonder if there's a possibility of a Class Action lawsuit against the petroleum companies and the EPA and other government agencies involved. They have jointly conspired to sell a product that they know causes damage to personal property.
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Not if Monsanto and Con-Agra have any input on the matter.

Slick
 
Yes, it is the typical cooperation of political businessmen and government.
One hand washes the other. Many call it cronyism.

As for liability for the costs of their product, the beauty of it, from the point of view of Con-Agra and Monsanto, and the rest of corn/ethanol lobby, is that they get to hide behind the government's immunity. Hiding behind the government's skirts, they plead "don't blame us, the government made us do it." Or, "we're just offering a product ordered to be used by the government." Never mind that they lobbied for it in the first place.

There are two kinds of businessmen, political and market. The former gets government to mandate the use of their mousetrap, the latter invents a better one. The author Burton Folsom distinguished between "political entrepreneurs and market entrepreneurs."
 
xbacksideslider said:
Yes, it is the typical cooperation of political businessmen and government.
One hand washes the other. Many call it cronyism.

As for liability for the costs of their product, the beauty of it, from the point of view of Con-Agra and Monsanto, and the rest of corn/ethanol lobby, is that they get to hide behind the government's immunity. Hiding behind the government's skirts, they plead "don't blame us, the government made us do it." Or, "we're just offering a product ordered to be used by the government." Never mind that they lobbied for it in the first place.

There are two kinds of businessmen, political and market. The former gets government to mandate the use of their mousetrap, the latter invents a better one. The author Burton Folsom distinguished between "political entrepreneurs and market entrepreneurs."
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Corporate capitalism vs Political capitalism. The one invents the other is meddling for social engineering.
 
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