Given that a car running on E85 delivers fewer miles per gallon, anyone who uses it will end up out of pocket.
Crime has risen almost constantly for many decades, and yet the criminal justice system now delivers fewer detections and fewer convictions than it did 15 years ago.
A Texas Tribune investigation has uncovered years of inaction by state officials while money flowed to tutoring companies, delivering few academic results and flouting state regulations.
But for the most part, central banks in the region are expected to deliver few, if any, rate increases before the year is out.
This reform, which aimed to stimulate competition and enabled groups of local doctors to purchase services, was unpopular with voters, caused much upheaval and delivered few obvious benefits.
In many cases he was right, and the GOP candidate delivered few downright lies, although he also traded in what he once referred to as "truthful hyperbole".
Some Nigerians claimed it was a vehicle for self-promotion, which delivered few of the successes of Mrs Rawlings's movement, rallied support for General Babangida and soaked up state funds.
Many of the dams were spectacular failures, delivering few, if any, benefits (except to politicians and construction firms) while displacing millions of people and leaving behind environmental destruction and public debts.
But while the world is wondering what kind of Olympics China will deliver, few in the West seem to have realized the Games will present an Olympic-size weiji for the West, as well.
