[stockpirate]

The events the liberals have set in motion scare me.

[Koblenz]

I think ethanol is pretty stupid, but we're doing it, not the poor countries.

So why don't the poor countries grow their own food?

I guess it's because they have bad economic policies that prevent them from growing enough food for themselves. Our bad economic policies (ethanol) still allows us to grow enough food for us, just not for everyone else.

I wish we'd stop the ethanol thing so food in the grocery would be cheaper for me. But these other countries: go grow your own food. And reform your economies, put in property rights, so that people in your countries want to grow food. Don't blame us.

[griswold3]

This is the ‘New Direction’ the Dems promised in 2006.

IMHO, it’s not going very well.

[fweingart]

Only freaking fools would endorse the ethanol insanity!

[YOUGOTIT]

There is enough oil and coal for the next at least 500 years. Lets drill it out and quit this stupid ignorant low IQ position of saying that global warming is coming because of us humans. Since the idiots who say that do not know enough to read history they are so dumb that they will tell us that it has never happened before which shows their stupidity and low IQ.

[athelass]

They scare me too, but the ethanol buck stops at President Bush’s desk and McCain is pandering right along with the liberals. When the government “mandates” anything disaster is sure to follow, though the ill effects of this bad policy have been particularly quick, seems to me. A perfect storm of stupidity. This article highlights so much special interest influence on this issue a blind man could see it. Heck, even the New York Times can see it!

[SatinDoll]

Sugar cane is a far better source of ethanol than corn, and unlike corn there is zero nutritive value to sugar. You have to pull nutirents out of your body to digest that higly alkaline substance.

If it were a food, feed lots would give it to cattle as a main source of comestibles, and they don’t do that at all. Though I have seen hog farmers feed out of date candy bars to feeder pigs but hey, those animals will eat anything. The important thing about sugar cane is that it can be grown in tropical regions, giving nations in those areas a potential cash crop to buy other goods such as imported food.

Most of the failed crops around the world seem to be wheat, rice and beans. Potatos should be pressed into duty here, as they can be grown almost everywhere and need little in the was of water.

[GravityFree]

They saved a lot of gas but didn't get far

In A Yugo

[rightinthemiddle]

Envirowacko policies pushed by Democrats and Republicans are killing our economy:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/04/02/cstillwell.DTL