Charlie Munger. Source of image: http://daily.stanford.edu/tempo?page=content&id=16135&repository=0001_article#
Charlie Munger is the number two executive, next to Warren Buffett, at Berkshire Hathaway. He is old enough, and successful enough, and gutsy enough, and curmudgeony enough, to call ethanol "stupid" while in the "cornhusker state" for the company’s annual meeting. (Of course, he wasn’t running for public office, and knew he would soon be flying back to his home in California.)
Munger said using ethanol for fuel seems "stupid" to him because it takes more energy to create than it produces as a fuel. Buffett said there are so many ethanol plants, existing or planned, that he doesn’t see how they can all continue operating profitably.
For the full article, see:
STEVE JORDON and JONATHAN WEGNER. "Berkshire Notes: Clayton’s Excutives Double Up." Omaha World-Herald (Sunday, May 7, 2006): 1D.
(Note: the annual meeting was held on Sat., May 6, 2006)