Comments on: Mandated Flex-fuel Technology: Throwing Bad Regulation After Bad

By: | Blog | Scientific breakthrough: Remove CO2 from pollution and atmosphere for ...

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:33:54 +0000

[...] market think tanks like the Heritage Foundation (article) and the Competitive Enterprise Institute (article) that do much of the support for climate scepticism and denial, opposition to climate action, and [...]

By: Government Shouldn’t Decide What Cars Run On | The Foundry

Government Shouldn’t Decide What Cars Run On | The Foundry — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 18:03:09 +0000

[...] make a certain percentage of their fleet flex-fuel. What the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Marlo Lewis writes about that idea applies to a broader alternative vehicle mandate as well: What flex-fuel mandatists [...]

By: Drivers Don’t Need a Mandate for Choice | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:03:43 +0000

[...] is not a lack of competition, but as The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Marlo Lewis says, it is “simply a competitive outcome they [...]

By: Drivers Don’t Need a Mandate for Choice « PA Pundits – International

Drivers Don’t Need a Mandate for Choice « PA Pundits – International — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 10:03:59 +0000

[...] is not a lack of competition, but as The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Marlo Lewis says, it is “simply a competitive outcome they [...]

By: Liona

Liona — Fri, 15 May 2009 18:01:15 +0000

That’s too bad, E85 is sold at a lower price in comparison to gasoline in European countries such as France and Sweden. Is there any hope for change?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:35:28 +0000

Its a strange strange world we live in were subsidies and mandates spur competition rather than thwart it…

By: Tom Tanton

Tom Tanton — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:20:57 +0000

Nice piece Marlo. What is “interesting” are the number of State regulators who seem to be backing away from ethanol, after years of mandatory programas to expand its use. Calif. just adopted a Low Carbon Fuel Standard that (180 degrees from initial place) now actually discouragaes ethanol because of its carbon footprint. And the numer of state vehicle fleets that spent extra taxpayer dollars on the flex fules, but never ever see alternative fuel is legionary. Will folks ever realize (or act) knowing that mandatory purchases, like the RFS and proposed RPS, inevitably INCREASE the cost (or at least the price) for the mandated commodity?

By: Fred

Fred — Tue, 05 May 2009 08:34:43 +0000

For this very reason I just bought a 2005 Jeep Liberty with a Diesel engine. The Pathfinder it replaced had trouble using ethanol contaminated gas. I was running it on ethanol free premium gas.