Yeah, we can't have THAT. Not when we can line the pockets of some filthy Arab or bloated oil company baron instead.
You obviously didn't read the article. It takes more energy (oil, natural gas, nuclear, whatever) to produce ethanol than it produces. By using ethanol we are further lining the pockets of the "filthy Arab or bloated oil company baron".
"Yeah, it sucks that people in the middle east are getting rich, let's soak it to consumers and make a bunch of large american companies rich at their expense!!! That will show them!"
"Yeah, we can't have THAT. Not when we can line the pockets of some filthy Arab or bloated oil company baron instead"
Don't you get it Iron Jack? The study shows we have to use the same amount of arab oil even with ethanol production. Moreover, what they probably don't count is what productive crops those farmers could have made instead.
Hey Jack, what exactly do you think farm tractors run on, sunshine?
Please relay to everyone how the U.S. halting buying oil from the Arabs is going to change anything? All that would happen is we would buy from the Norwegians or Russians and the the Arabs would sell to them. Tell everyone how that will shut down the Arabs. The only pockets that will get hurt will be ours as we would pay even higher prices for imported oil.