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Two Ethanol Plays: Pros and Cons

The alternate energy program is the biggest government sponsored scam of the twenty-first century. There isn't enough corn in the world to cover the demand for food and fuel; and, there never will be!

Nancy Pelosi, the dimwit from fruit and nuts land, a.k.a. San Francisco, is a leading example of the chicanery being practiced by government officials in their quest to deceive the American people into supporting schemes that will contribute to the politicians' plans for wealth. She has, surreptitiously, invested about $150,000 in T. Boone Pickens latest proposition to have the taxpayers underwrite his dubious plan to push alternate energy proposals. He has asked California taxpayers to grant him a $10 billion bond to get his program moving with no guarantees that the investment will make any difference in the struggle to achieve energy independence. Of course, Pickens and Pelosi will come out winners while the taxpayers get screwed, again.

Oh yes, Pelosi’s investment is, definitely, a conflict of interest. Alternate energy is a government-sponsored program and the Speaker has a very real influence on the content and funding of this legislation. Will she be punished? Very doubtful.

However, back to the original premise of the future and worth of alternate energy and ethanol. The American people, over 70% of them, are demanding the implementation of the Republican proposal to Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less. They will not tolerate the Democrat weaseling and procrastination on this very important issue. Already, the Dems (Dims) are awaking to the fact that it is an election year and the electorate is mad as hell and won’t take it any more. Of course, the Dem proposals on energy independence are worthless and time consuming and will go nowhere. Look for a big movement to oust them in November.

The Republicans aren’t much better but, at least, they have a workable and worthwhile program to achieve energy independence before we pursue alternate energy as a final solution.

Ethanol Producers in Trouble as Corn Sets New Record

This whole ethanol program is nothing more than a "wet dream" of the wacko environmentalists and the, equally, clueless Democrat Congress. The effects of this massively useless and expensive boondoggle will be catastrophic on the world food supply (riots are, already, in progress), waste time in the move to achieve oil independence, ruin automobile engines all over the nation, and drive the cost of fuel even higher.

The real answers are four fold and very easy to understand:

1. Open drilling in the ANWR, the coastal plains of Alaska, in the deep waters of the Gulf of
Mexico, and off the coast of California.

2. Build more refineries, now!

3. Build, at least, 100 new nuclear power plants.

4. Aggressively pursue and develop hydrogen as a fuel.

As to hydrogen, with the discovery of a Purdue University research team, last August, to produce hydrogen from water, on demand, the necessity of special and expensive handling is eliminated and the cost of hydrogen production is minimal, cheap, and safe .

Additionally several companies and organizations are furiously, at work developing fuel cell technology to produce electricity from hydrogen in vehicles, homes, and businesses. With a national emergency development plan this technology can be on line in five years or less. All that is needed is for the government to get the hell out of the way and let good old American ingenuity and determination get the job done.

A major and, extremely, important step in bringing all of the above to fruition in the shortest time possible can and must be taken in the coming November elections. The electorate must dismiss just about every member of Congress running for re-election and replace them with honest, knowledgeable, and dedicated to the will of the American people candidates.

Yes, your Congressional representatives, House and Senate, are anchors on the above proposed plans as well as everything else this nation needs to move forward and prosper. This marching in route step to the polls to blindly cast your votes for the same dunderheads, election after election, must cease, now! Otherwise, it will be the same old, same old and the country will continue to go down the tubes. Believe it!

Question: If your Congresspersons are dunderheads and you continue to vote for them, what does that make you?