> http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/18854684.html
>
> Those magic beans called 'ethanol'
>
> "It's hard to believe ethanol is getting "clobbered the way it's
> getting clobbered right now" over something as insignificant as some
> starving Africans, says longtime champion Sen. Charles Grassley, R-
> Iowa."
>
> "Everyone knew all along it takes 1,700 gallons of water and 51 cents
> in tax credits to create one gallon of ethanol from corn -- at which
> point the stuff still can't compete without a 54-cents-a-gallon tariff
> to block the importation of cheaper sugar-cane ethanol from Brazil."
> --------------------------
> For the full biofuel disaster story, see -
>
> http://home.att.net/~meditation/bio-fuel-hoax.html
>
> Christopher Calder