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I think that we are focusing too much on grain-based ethanol and enough on biomass ethanol. The benefits to biomass ethanol are astonishing compared to grain.

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I just cant understand why this country can not come togather to work for the good of all, insteade of trying to get rich lets live a productive life and go forward.

Another factor of Ethanol is that we are using a food source for fuel, which if you ask me is a subject that needs some attention given the fact that there are millions of mal-nurished people struggling in the world. So when we subsidize a crop like corn, just so more americans can continue to not face the facts that they need to change there habits, instead of subsidizing food crops to feed people, I feel we are not making the right decisions.

You are right, comment No.11, we are having a difficult time coming together, but the problem isn't that we're "using a food source" for energy. Food, after all, is just a store for the Sun's energy, like all fuels; though, granted, food has a special quality to us. But the great blunder here is that we're trying to solve the "energy problem" by beating each other over the head with the force of the government. We've fallen for the fallacy that we must use tyranny to force it one way or the other. You alluded to part of the problem: subsidies. "Subsidy" is just a pretty pseudonym for tyranny. Governmental control of the tools and resources of production IS the problem. If idividuals were free to produce whatever fuel they saw fit, we wouldn't be in this mess. For example, I find it offensive and ridiculous that I need a permit from a Federal agency to distill my own fuel. Who's brilliant idea was that? Some "do gooder", no doubt. I'm sure I must obtain further permission from various paternal governmentsl agencies in order to sell the product of my labor -- so we can protect the "consumer". Right. This is why "this country can not come together to work for the good of all," as comment No.10 opines. We are mired fighting for subsidized hand-outs on the one hand, and asking permission to "live a productive life and go forward," in the other hand. I believe this is what is meant by the phrase the "pursuit of happiness." Well, do we believe it? Or have we fallen for our professors' dogma that the Declaration of Independence is "just a pretty letter" rather than the declaration of individual sovereignty that it truely is? We will not solve "the energy problem" or "global warming" or any of the other problems facing us until we each individually give up the personal philosophy that we must force our neighbor through governmental regulations, laws and controls to live and act the way we see fit. I'd like to draw an example from the comments posted here: if free to do it the way you think is right, rather than having it forced upon you by the majority or by some corporate special interest, some of you would distill and sell grain-based fuel, some would use corn, some would use switchgrass, still others would find better alternatives. Others of you would tend toward solar or wind, or continue to distill petroleum. Fine. But the point is, in a free market, not this governmental subsidized and regulated clap-trap, these problems would be solved iteratively over time. Freedom is the answer. We've lived so long without it have we forgotten what it is? Have we given up on the principles of self-governance, self-reliance and personal responsibility? I hope we haven't. I hope for my sake and my children's sakes that we haven't forgotten.