On Jun 6, 10:23 am, "Ken Finney" wrote:
"Matt Barrow" wrote in message

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"kontiki" wrote in message
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Nomen Nescio wrote:

And don't forget that political BS promoting ethanol blends. Save the
planet,
higher prices and lower gas mileage.

yeah.. government logic... force the use of a product because it
sounds good to people... an might get you re-elected. Oooops ...
now we discover that burning ethanol can produce some rather ugly
and dangerous by products.

Not to mention corn shortages that are ripping Mexico and other countries
apart...

Just a pet peeve of mine, but the farmers pay "check off" fees when they
sell their crops to pay for research to increase demand. That's what pays
for all those "Beef, it's what' for dinner" commercials, it isn't the
supermarkets, it's the farmers/ranchers to increase demand and hence prices.
Farmers have invested a lot of money to create increase demand for corn so
as to increase the price they receive for corn. My pet peeve is that
increased corn prices are presented by the media as an unfortunate
unintended consequence of ethanol production, where in truth, it was the
entire intent in the first place!

rant mode off.

My bigger peeve is hundreds of millions of tax money going to Archer
Daniels Midland to develop alcohol for fuel. ADM is hugely
profitable. Why are my taxes going to this? If alcohol from CORN is
viable, I don't need to subsidize it. Besides, it isn't a good deal
from an energy investment/reward standpoint either.