E85 tax credits "misguided"

Monday, July 16, 2007

From an article by Jason Stein in the Wisconsin State Journal:

Protect the environment and national security and do it while preserving the livelihood of Wisconsin farmers and auto workers. Those are the goals, supporters said, of two bills in the state Assembly that would provide a tax credit for cars and trucks that run on E-85, a fuel that's 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline.

But environmentalists said the bills are misguided and would encourage state consumers in many cases to buy gas-guzzling vehicles that run on gas and little E-85.

"They are more of a problem than a solution," Chris Deisinger, a Wisconsin energy policy consultant for the national environmental group Union of Concerned Scientists, said of some of the vehicles covered under the tax credit.