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To: energyplay who wrote (44284)	5/23/2005 6:33:52 AM
From: John Carragher	Respond to of 206144

the northeast is against supports but when presidential election everyone running for office love the supports. kerry's position was all for ethanol. i believe the guy who ran against clinton senator from new jersey was for ethenol.. funny i remember before they announced they gave speeches against ethanol but no one running for president could write off mid west votes.

To: energyplay who wrote (44284)	5/23/2005 7:58:18 PM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 206144

>>pretty shallow in Hawaii...<< Last year Hawaii's state government took some actions in support of ethanol. Plants to make it from sugarcane are supposedly in the works, but I can't find any current info. The ethanol debate reminds me of the OS platform wars in the 80s. There was a lot of indignant huffing and puffing about how awful Windows was when it first came out. But Gates kept improving it, and using his MS-DOS base to expand his market. Remember "vaporware"? Likewise the ethanol lobby is using brute force to capture market share for a highly dubious product in the form of corn-based ethanol. But if the new cellose-to-ethanol plants work as advertised and ethanol becomes cheaper than gasoline, they'll own the market and the subsidies can be gradually phased out. I guess we'll know in about 5 years.