One of the flaws in the corn ethanol idea was that it could not be piped and so it had to be trucked to the gas stations because of it's high water content, which gasoline is relatively free from. Well having to truck ethanol pretty much wiped out any net energy that the corn might have produced as an energy source making us MORE dependent on oil not less.
Well trucking ‘rare minerals’ from the moon to the earth is going to be a bit more expensive than trucking ethanol to the pumps, like a million times+ or more, slowing down the recuping of that $500B/$1T or so from all those ‘profits’
Newt is a idea guy for sure, unfortunately many of them are fun sounding clunkers. Ethanol was a huge disaster but all it took was selling it to a few gullable voters to make us slaves to it.
silly SOL, once we allocate a grant for the flux capacitor, the moon garbage fuel will easily pay for the rare *earth* stuff to be brought home...