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To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (246368)	4/9/2002 2:40:32 PM
From: Zoltan!	Respond to of 769670

Really, all you need to know is that ethanol costs more energy than it provides. Otherwise they would use ethanol to make more ethanol, not oil. And they wouldn't need a subsidy. It reminds me of an old Superman episode where the crooks kidnapped a professor and his machine that made gold. The problem was that the machine consumed platinum to make gold. At a huge loss. The difference here is that while the "Superman" crooks lost money, with ethanol the crooks make the taxpayer take the loss while they profit.