[colorado tanker]

Well, lessee. Taxpayers have to subsidize ethanol over 50 cents a barrel and we have to keep out cheaper imports with a big tariff. Then, it still isn't enough so's we'll have to "bail out" the coming overproduction capacity. Now we find out all this government intervention is causing instability in Mexico much the way the war on drugs is in South America, turning whole countries over to the communists.

Yep, we always ought to trust the government over the market to give us just what we deserve.

[spokeshave]

Antway...imminent global warming and changing weather patterns (drought - heatwaves etc) will soon trash the corn crop, .... note to self ....buy stock in wooden bicycle manufacturers.

[muffaletaman]

Taxpayers have to subsidize ethanol over 50 cents a barrel...

The article says 51 cents a Gallon. There are 42 gallons in a barrel of petroleum products.

This is a subsidy of $21 a barrel for ethanol producers. Pretty large largess...