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Didn't everyone want cars to burn off of ethonal? Something we can grow with crops. Not only that, but it lowers world dependence on Arab states. Just imagine if England could export oil to the US, and the US could export cooking oil to jolly 'ole England. If we allowed our people and farmers to be free to grow, produce, and consume as they see fit, my goodness! Bad 'ole oil no longer needed. Tankers no longer needed. Refineries no longer needed. ANWR no longer needed. No drilling anywhere. No oil spills. And America's farmers would make us rich!

I hope you just inadvertantly forgot the sarcasm tag because this is, of course, total utter and absolute bullsh!t Ethanol used as fuel consumes more fossil fuel than just burning petrol straight from the refinery. Look at this link www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/01/8.23.01/Pimentel-ethanol.html to see the details that no ecofreak ever understands (or ever acknowledges if they do understand, because environmentalism is a religion, not a rational position)

You took the words right out of my mouth, but not the web address. Good find. For any country to begin using food stuffs for fuel, if the variety of corn used for ethanol is an edible variety, when there is more than adequate oil to be used for fuel, is folly beyond measure. It has been duscussed at great length on FR that when there is a "real" break through in technology, alternative fuels may become viable, but until that time, we should not be holding our breath, or pee ceeing all over ourselves to placate the stupid and ignorant who call themselves, environmentalists.

It's in my profile, a default /sarcasm tag. LOL. Been there for some time. I am not pushing ethonal. I am saying that people should be allowed to put anything they want in their gas tanks/diesal tanks [and yes, if cooking oil is an alternative to diesal, cars can be made with cooking oil engines. That is an alternative fuel for gasoline/petrol/[enter name here].

This shows liberalism and environmentalism for what it is: green on the outside and Socialist Red on the inside. Innovation is punished severely, possibly with seven years in jail. They do not want the mission accomplished. They do not want to end the consumptuion of ... ok safe word... fossile fuels. They want our money. And they want us to think we deserved to lose our money. They want us feeling guilty for having money, for having cars, and for cheating our way out of a nice, healthy walk.