[OFB Cafe] Bio Fuels

[Timothy Butler]

Caution! You're entering the Sarcasm Zone.

> I would hope it would make sense to you, otherwise you don't  
> understand much about business economics.  If the oil companies were  
> taxed on par with other multinational industries, and with the  
> biofuels industry, they'd have to pay more taxes.  This gives the  
> company incentive to do one of two things
>  a.. either invest the profits in tax-deductible investments so as  
> to not pay tax on them (alternative energy sources)

	Yes, interfering with the market in another way -- always a good  
option.

>
>  b.. lower the inflated price of their product to more reasonable  
> levels to get into a lower tax bracket

	More jolly good choices -- let's just let the government figure out  
the reasonable price and dictate it, shall we?

>
> Either method will allow the alternative fuels industry to compete  
> with Big Oil, which it can't do now because if you're a biofuels  
> producer in the US all you have to do is wake up in the morning and  
> you'll get slapped with another new tax law.  Competition is what  
> it's all about and Big Oil has none.  They have a monopoly and they  
> own the political system to keep it that way.

	Yes, that's why there are E85 signs all over the place around here,  
right?

	-Tim


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