[river rat]

French wines have become as unnecessary as the French themselves...

The "real deal" can be had without going to France -- for wine and allies.

Fruck the Fench...

Semper Fi

[quantim]

LOL, look at the bright side, the dems/libs/envirowackos won't let us drill in Anwar, so:

The Europeans, it turns out, typically have lots of surplus wine they can't sell—and some of it ends up in American gas tanks.

It happens like this: The European governments offer "distillation credits"—a subsidy for wine producers to turn the surplus wine into alcohol. And American companies like Archer Daniels Midland Co. have been buying the European wine alcohol at auctions and turning it into ethanol.

Ethanol is used as a gasoline supplement, an "oxygenate" to help reduce auto pollution. It will replace MTBE in California gasoline in the next two years. So some of that European wine wound up in American gas tanks.

[308MBR]

Anything the Fwench can do, a non socialist can do better, cheaper and quicker.

The Fwench operate on a combination of the old Roman system of organization and Marx's society.

Rome and Communism both fell under the weight of the combination of their bureaucracy, sense of entitlement and laziness. The same three things seem to collapse the Fwench about every 50 years or so since Napoleon.

Nothing to see here. Move along.