Opinion: Forget green -- Dem National Convention to go Gold
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The Democratic National Convention is making a show of trying to be environmentally friendly, and as longtime polar bear fans we can’t object. And as fans of a certain beverage that has been part of the human experience since, well, forever, we can’t object to the way they plan to fuel their ethanol cars.
With beer. Coors beer, to be precise.
Turns out Coors has been converting some of its bad beer -- yes, there is such as thing -- into ethanol at a plant in Golden, a Denver suburb. They make about 3 million gallons of it a year to blend with gasoline for E85 ethanol (85% ethanol, 15% gasoline).
And come August, some of it will be poured into part of the Democrats’ convention fleet of 450 vehicles, 20% of which will run on E85, DNC transportation director Andrew Ballard told KUSA-TV in Denver.
Coors is the official ethanol sponsor for the convention, and you have to wonder if someone in Coors marketing pondered the sagacity of being known as the firm that gave gas to politicians. But it all makes us wonder which will consume more alcohol August 25-28 -- the cars, or the delegates?
Our money’s on the delegates.
-- Scott Martelle
