"Maxprop" wrote
Noteworthy is that we passed the $2.70 per gallon barrier earlier this year.
A smart society or government would consider adopting a program of
progressive ethanol replacement, but my guess is that it's going to take a
miracle of some sort to convince our government to act. And of course we
face the constant barrage of lobbying and disinformation by Big Oil. Money
talks, logic walks.

A bit over a year ago I went to the MD with a sore throat that turned out to be
cancer, but the MD screwed around trying to lower my blood pressure until his
medicines gave me heart trouble. By the time I quit taking his prescriptions
and got a different MD a few month later I only had a 1 in 5 chance of survival.

Fretting over oil and ethanol is like worrying over minor hypertension while
your patient dies of cancer. Our cancer is overpopulation. Cure it and all our
other problems become manageable. Ignore it and we face a global Easter Island
disaster whether we switch to ethanol or not.