"pgbnh" wrote in message
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Take a look at last week's Time magazine cover article on the great myth
of ethanol. It turns out that the list of 'unintended consequences' is
quite long and the net effect of increased ethanol usage is far more
damaging to the environment than the use of oil-based fuels. (This does
not address the damage to engines, the decreased performance (which means
more fuel burned), impact on other commodities, etc etc).

But of course, to 'Big Corn' (corollary to 'Big Oil') the fact that
ethanol is far from our salvation is ignored. Also by the various
politicians who are deep into the pockets of 'Big Corn'.

If it were not such a dissaster for the country, and all of us in it, all of
that would really be quite amusing. ADM, et al, have gotten the
environmentalists signed onto yet another scheme that does little more than
pick our pockets and polute everything in sight--it's MTBE back and bigger
than ever.

Peter