Originally Posted by t walgamuth

I only know what it was spent on at PU. I guessed that it funded a whole host of other highway projects and so forth. The Shovel ready qualifier was spoken of two years ago. When we got the big surge of ARRA money it did not require any sort of Shovel ready qualifiers but did require additional paperwork to show it was done with prevailing wages.

I am in favor of the government investing in alternative energies too in general but am not very hot on the ethanol component since it is proven that it requires more energy to produce than it provides when burnt.