[Delacon]

A nuclear energy based economy is inevitable. It may take the death of the last lib who saw China Syndrome but it will happen.

[steelyourfaith]

Ethanol ping.

[JasonC]

Coal.

Cheaper, ready, abundant. By all means, do nukes too. But the silliness blocking the most economical fuel there is, is all unjustified luddite nonsense, to the bottom.

[SandRat]

and drilling in our own oil fields,

and building more refineries

and telling the envir-O-NAZIs to go pound sand.

[Delacon]

I don’t expect y’all to agree with me on this.

[buccaneer81]

Bravo!
Bump !

[kingattax]

liberal morons, missing the “rational thought” gene, believe the only energy we need will come from mister sun and mister wind. anything else is bad bad bad

[devere]

The only reason anyone wouldn’t say coal first and foremost is they are unconsciously swayed by Al Gore’s global warming hoax. The USA is the Saudi Arabia of coal.

[Gorzaloon]

As a result, we suddenly find ourselves taking food out of the mouths of children in developing nations. That may sound harsh, but it also happens to be true.

What?

If WE grow OUR corn, and burn it in a stove, feed it to the birds, or throw it away, what does this have to do with starving The Children™ in a "Developing Nation"? Does this mean the "Developing Nation" cannot grow its own food? If so, why do we call it "Developing" if it is nonviable?

-Unless the Writer is referring to handout recipients in corrupt regimes, who despise us. Is that what the writer meant?

[ricks_place]

Biofuels were another promotion from the feel good radical 60s crowd and their offspring. No critical thinking is necessary when glib bromides will do. Judge Liberal by intention and not the result, resultant destruction.

[Doogle]

Algore

[EverOnward]

Bump for reference - later read

[xcamel]

Oh how I remember getting pounded into bad maize taco shells on this very forum (2004/2005/2006) for suggesting that corn (any bio for that matter) fuel was a really, really bad idea.

I feel the same way about the idiotic idea of the (oxymoron) FairTax

Please note the tagline.

[cpdiii]

Ethanol is for making fine whiskeys, wines and spirits.

Ethanol sucks as a fuel for the internal combustion engine.

President Carter thought ethanol was a good idea as a motor fuel.

Anything else about ethanol is not important and please do not put it in your car's gas tank.

[sphinx]

As a result, we suddenly find ourselves taking food out of the mouths of children in developing nations. That may sound harsh, but it also happens to be true.

Really? U.S. corn exports are at a record high.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I always felt that the single event that did more damage to the U.S. economy and foreign policy than any other was Three Mile Island. Not for the direct consequences, but the public relations disaster it spawned. Followed up by The China Syndrome we are still living with the consequences.

[Neoliberalnot]

Folks, ethanol has been around since the late 70s. Imagine what price oil would be without the 10% ethanol added to replace a similar amount of gas—we would be using about another 10% gasoline. Does anyone really think that using another 10% gasoline is going to force the price of oil down? Don’t get me wrong, I am for any viable solution to the energy problem. Trouble is there are too many roadblocks in the way of other options. The middle oil powers have the demorats in their pockets to prevent domestic production, and there is zip for infrastructure for most of the other options, hence, ethanol is a small piece of the fix since the infrastructure from grain handling has been in place for decades.

[ROP_RIP]

Of course. Didn’t you know that the white man’s greed runs a world in need?

[muawiyah]

The UN guy and the writer are both crazy. Most of the Third World is Moslem. Virtually all the corn we produce is fed to hogs, and those hogs produce pork, and Moslems don't eat pork.

Doesn't matter what part of the corn crop we turn into fuel, it has no impact one way or the other on any nation with a large number of Moslems.

[DouglasKC]

A nuclear energy based economy is inevitable. It may take the death of the last lib who saw China Syndrome but it will happen.

Absolutely.

[Sun]

We need to contact our reps and tell them we need more refineries, and drill for oil in our own country, and not use food for fuel - it’s unethical.

THEN we need to write an editor’s letter asking other folks in our area to do the same thing. That’s how we can get our elected people to listen (maybe).