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I agree Ethanol is a joke. It's welfare for corn producers. Why in the world do we have farm subsidies when farm commodities are at record prices? If ethanol were about price and energy efficiency at the least we would drop the tariff on Brazilian ethanol and import the cheaper oless energy intensive sugar cane based ethanol from S. America till we could actually make ethanol from cellulose efficiently and in large amounts.
I agree people should drive Hummers if they can afford to. I don't believe they should of received tax incentives to buy them. In fact if anything there should be a penalty based on the increased usage of limited resopurces they require which increases teh price of those resources for everyone not just the Hummer owners.
Solar and Wind showed promise. Reagan dismantled both programs. That was a mistake. We went from first in both fields to way back. every kilowat produced by that means is 5 cents the Iranians wouldn't get.
Demand has increased because of India and China. it still would help if we weren't pigs at the energy trough. our pigishness is also 'extra' demand on the supply and again in te end extra dollars in the hands of Countries that are hostile to us
I have np with nuclear energy myself. They better be able to withstand a 767 flying into one.
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