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The Bush brothers have a vested interest in forcing America to produce ethanol right now, just like Al Gore has a vested interest in a carbon tax from global warming.

ADM, every mewing hick farmer that can't make an honest living, most of the Republican/Democrat farm state political hacks.

The tax and regulatory suppression of oil, nuclear, coal in this country, coupled with the delusionist notions of greenies and the greed of farmers are the motivations of this. It's politics and money, not physics and economy.

The economic distortions of the market make eth and other expensive fuels seem possible. Actually it makes them possible.

Anyways these farm greed heads, ADM and government gave us the toxic boondoggle of MTBE additives in our fuels. It's so screwed up it's hard to figure where the clear baseline is.

I'd love for half the country to go eth. Eth gas prices would soar to, say, $7/gallon. I'd stick with gas which would drop to $1. Fine with me. Of course then the eth heads would flee eth. Duh. Free, private markets. It used to have some hold in Republican circles.