Re: takes 1.5 gallons gasoline to produce 1 gallon ethanol in modern agriculture

[Eeyore]

LongmuirG wrote:

> The poster formerly known as pooh bear wrote, about planned economies:
> > And why did you choose those examples ? So-called 'Communism' was always 
> > pretty
> > corrupt.
>
> OK.  Always ready to learn here.  Why don't you mention some examples
> of clearly successful planned economies?  (Zimbabwe & Uganda don't
> count).

Depends what you mean by a planned economy of course.

All economies that I know of have at least some level of direct planning and a
further indirect level that's acheived via selective taxation and subsidies.

It might be a better question if I asked if you knew of an example of a totally
unplanned economy.

Graham