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Ethanol Will Become a Fad Without Government Intervention

I continue to marvel at the spread of anti-ethanol Big Oil propaganda. In addition to the usual parrots such as Pat Robertson, Glenn Beck, and John Stossel, we now have the environmentalists piling on and adding their shrill two-cents-worth about how we're starving poor people all over the world with our profligacy. Biofuel is the most intelligent solution for power until we can figure out how to do it with other means.

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.