Popular Science Said Dems Made A Huge Mistake in Supporting Ethanol. Will Dems Say Republicans Control ...?

I'm pretty sure it was not just Democrats. I remember Bush pushing the ethanol economy pretty heavily.

I've said all along it was pandering to the corn growing states (which are republican strongholds, thus the Republican support of this). Ethanol does not save much energy, if any. It's cleaner, but it's not a big answer.

Turning cellulose into fuel is a better long term response because it uses so much waste product.

I read in an article that big oil was considering not building any more refineries if congress and the president were pushing ethanol. And it was not long ago . It really won't matter to most of us. Ethanol is just as expensive as gas and big oil will eventually take it over. Besides, at some point OPEC would drop the price of oil so much we would go back to it.

Your statements are true but it is not just Democrats that are supporting Ethanol. I also take issue with the Republicans who do so. We need to get our nuclear energy development out of mothballs and let the free market take care of alternate energy sources. Government funding creates only waste.

It would make far more sense for the government to offer a big cash award for anyone who comes up with a cost effective, non-polluting and easily deploy-able energy source. That would put the power of competition on the right side of the equation.

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We can't grow enough corn without growing nothing BUT corn.

We need hydroelectic and nuclear power as well as clean burning coal plants.

Turn the roads and highways into slot car tracks.

Electrify the country.

Wind mills,in the water only,we'll need the land for crops.Every lake can hold a number of wind mills.

While we're doing this ,we'll still need oil,American oil and as little as possible from the Middle East.

To say that Washington ain't exactly full of rocket scientists is an understatement.To have congress or the white-house set the energy policy of the US is ludicrous.The policy should begin at the DOE with substantial input from utilities.

Deciding policy based on the amount of public support or the number of headlines it receives is just plain dumb.

Maybe we're paying for the Republican's mistakes with gas heading toward $4 a gallon?

We produce so much corn in the US that we put it in our cardboard boxes. I'm sure we can stop consuming corn syrup and all those lovely extra calories that it adds to our processed foods.

Edit: I just looked up the article. The abstract starts out by stating that President Bush is seeking to invest $35 million in ethanol. He ain't no Democrat sweetheart.

i don't blame the democrats for pursuing oil, i think both parties are involved in that one,

what i do want to see is how the democrats will respond to the environmentalists in their own party, when this green fuel requires the destruction of millions of acres of virgin land for the increased farming of fuel corn

the corn we currently produce is spoken for,

You forgot...The U.S. has it's own oil...That the Dems Will not let us harvest....and still ..they blame the Republicans....