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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (33875)	4/25/2008 3:45:16 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217836

OK, give to the OPEC. We go there sell food at extortionary prices and get your USD into our pockets.

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (33875)	4/25/2008 4:57:41 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217836

Elroy, your logic is flying apart at the seams there: charging a tariff is not "free market" and neither is ethanol subsidy. That's a case of the bad actor calling the kettle black and hopping out of the frying pan into the fire. The underlying problem in both cases is dopey governments using state power to force people to produce fuel instead of food to solve a problem which will NOT be solved by that and which isn't a problem anyway and especially not when sunspot cycle 23 is stalled in the starting gates and we are about to freeze up and nothing will grow under a kilometre of ice. We will get the worst of all worlds - lots of ethanol, to go in cars which can't drive in metres of snow, while humans freeze and migrate south and Africans and others starve by the 100 million. But at least mega million barrels of oil will remain in the ground in Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Canada, Russia to save the environment. Meanwhile, simple-minded people try to cut down on their use of supermarket bags to save the world. Mqurice