From: Ellen K. 

The better ticket will be when they can produce fuel from anything
containing cellulose.

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:07:46 -0500, "Mark"
 wrote in message :

>I'm not sure the animosity will lessen, we've been fighting that ideology
>since our founding. But you're right that we could pay less attention to
>them if we didn't need the oil from that region. 100 years ago we used
>almost no oil and I believe that 100 years from now we also will use little
>oil.
>
>Just to clarify, I don't mean to sound completely against ethanol, I think
>it can play a small part, but I'm more interested in other possibilities
>that may arise from continuing research in that arena, than in actual large
>scale production. I suppose they're going forward no matter what, so I can
>hope for both.
>
>I'm sure too that in the future they'll look back at this era and ask
>themselves why the hell we didn't build more nuclear plants, explore for and
>exploit our own oil, and throw a lot more assets at rapidly developing more
>efficient solar panels and storage mechanisms, as well as wind and wave
>power.
>
>"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
>news:45b8bbc8{at}w3.nls.net...
>> We have to cut down oil usage somehow, that's the real terrorist threat
>> that you seem to be so concerned about.
>>
>> I'm not saying ethanol is the correct way to go, but *something* has to be
>> done to cut down on our reliance of foreign oil.  The less oil we need,
>> the less meddling we have to do, and the less meddling, the less animosity
>> towards us.
>>
>> --
>> Bob Comer
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "Mark"  wrote in message
news:45b82df5{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>I think I recall a few intellectual arguments against my
disdain for using
>>>"corn for fuel."
>>>
>>> If I recall correctly those arguments were along the lines of
"global
>>> energy generation transcends the minutia of food vs.
fuel," because it's
>>> all the same thing in the end and taking corn off the food market to
>>> satisfy the transportation market was no big deal because lower oil
>>> prices would offset any effects...
>>>
>>> Perhaps those arguments were misplaced:
>>>
>>>
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0701130049jan13,0,5505881.story
>>> "Ethanol's effect: Expensive tortillas"
>>>
>>> I guess starving out the Mexicans is an acceptable trade-off for
>>> enriching the ethanol producers in the US?
>>>
>>> For me, I like Exxon/Mobil over ADM 8 days a week.
>>>
>>
>>
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