Friday, July 20, 2007

Worshipping a Wooden Altar with Psalms of Hot Air

On the day it was announced that Michigan leads the nation in unemployment, the photogenic one, Michigan’s governor, Jennifer Granholm, announced the following.

Granholm announces first ethanol-wood factory

And what, exactly, did this big announcment inform Michiganders of?  Nothing.

Other details including the site, number of jobs and tax incentives to aid the company have not been finalized.

To be fair, the announcement does provide the information that the factory will supposedly be built by Mascoma Corporation, headquartered in Massachusetts, which recently announced that former Senator Tom Daschle (pdf file) has joined Mascoma’s Board of Directors, which basically means Daschle will be Mascoma’s lead government shakedown artist aka lobbyist, and that the fantasy factory will be built either in Northern Michigan, or Michigan’s U.P., because that’s where the wood is.

This announcement is simply hot air, stoked by an industry which only exists via the artificiality of government mandated legislation and subsidies.  Stay in Masschusetts, Mascoma, and fleece your own state’s individuals.

Posted by John Venlet on 07/20 at 05:19 AM
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