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Economists Blast Ethanol, the 'Nicorette Gum of America's Oil Addiction'

Very interesting how what started as anti-ethanol oil company propaganda is now repeated parrot-like in what seems every corner of the universe. The problems that ethanol presents are all fixable. Big Oil is afraid of renewable motor fuel mostly because the distillation process for ethanol and its variations is greatly simpler than that for turning crude oil into gasoline. Try to imagine switchgrass or hemp, even, grown on any available plot of ground in this country--no need for fertilizer, or plows, or any special attention--then being cut and sold to the local fuel plant. The technology involved to turn raw material into fuel is not much different than what bootleggers use to make booze.