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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

> Ethenol is like busy work.


OK.  That's rather handily put.  A couple of days ago the head of the FDIC 
said the solution to the housing bubble and debt crisis was for mortgage 
holders 
to simply keep the loans at their teaser rates (1% to 2%) and convert it to a 
30 year fixed mortgage at those rates.  Whaaa?  Can't these people do 
arithmetic??  It seems like everyone at the helm now making important 
decisions is an 
imbecil.  I keep hearing all the new crop of presidential candidates chanting 
'Ethanol, ethanol, ethanol ..."  Whether they are that ignorant or that 
corrupt or both and then some is little odds.

Energy-wise ethanol is indeed busy work.  But in another way it is far more 
destructive.  If we simply burned the petrol in our cars, we'd still have 
some 
topsoil and water with which to grow food, even if we had to do it by less 
mechanical means.  The way it is going we are going to end up out of gas and 
food 
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