* Cease all ethanol production. It requires more energy to make than it yields and the unintended consequence is higher food costs. Just say "no" to ethanol!
* Immediately create only ONE "blend" of gasoline and cease regional blends which are stupid, costly, and meaningless. Even if this is the "cleanest" blend, just make it ONE and be done with it. Trucking custom blends around the country is wasteful.
* Drill for oil in Alaska, Gulf of Mexico, and other sites in the CONUS as a matter of national security.
* Construct state-of-the-art refineries and/or retrofit current and dormant ones and crank up production.
* Make all “carbon credit” scams unlawful.
* Construct SEVERAL, regional Pebble-Bed Reactors (or other similar designs) that are not considered "breeders", are rechargeable, and cleaner than any current nuclear generator design.
* Use the residual heat from the reactor above to process motor fuel from coal. Even though Clinton "stole" some of the best coal reserves, we still have a lot to use.
* Have Iraq pay for its freedom, and maybe even pay us back for their freedom. We'll still need their oil.
* Bust up the cartels.
* Convince local taxing bodies to lift or fix the sales tax on gasoline so that as gas prices go up, the local tax collectors don’t see a windfall revenue jump at the expense of the consumer.
Google is a easy thing to use.......
FR’s-—some are starting to sounds like Dem’s, take a look at your posts
Ethanol Facts:http://www.ethanolfacts.com/ETHL2007/quickfacts.html
Ethanol produces up to 9% of daily US imports 311 million barrels per day.....
Corn and Food prices have been essentially stagnent for 25 yrs......lets see your business/ line of work duplicate that
Last yr. Ag Fed Prog. gave back 6 billion in unused federal dollars....and US Treas. via a brazille ethanol tariff brought in .50 per gallon 6 billion gals of brazille ethanol..........ethanol subsiz near a wash,
A phase down, maybe out of ethanol sub. has started, new farm prog. close to being submitted drops blenders credit from 51 to 45 cents—— A sched phase down is fine.
Dont let the MSM media campaign pit Red against Red..really what is trying to be done.
Ethanol is likely respon for 25 to 33% of corn price increase. China, India etc demand along with Middleman profit taking and Trans. cost accounts for other 75%....a concerted campaign by Food and Oil Corptns is in full swing, fully assisted by MSM’s
Question-—with china, india, Indonesia, Japan demand, even without ethanol in the equation.....one could say corn price might be at same level regardless.......Check out the price history of Hard Red Spring wheat in the last 6 month time period......with dollar low USA is the grain supplier of 1st choice pure and simple.
Sure ethanol has its weakpoints, but has employed 160k people.
final point in food concern: Ethanol uses only the starch portion of the corn kernal.....the protein is sold to the lvsk industry, in very high demand to produce food, actual reduction in feed available is reduced dramatically.
Spend some time in the “ethanol facts” link.... make an informed decsion,.......not a D.Kos type decsion
Agreed, but the corn lobby and all it's supporters who hang out here on FR (who are probably making a pretty penny themselves), will run to their congressman/senator and complain about the welfare they're not getting anymore.
Dont forget Nuke Power