Replying to a message of Geo to John Beamish:

 G> From: "Geo" 

 G> If you buy gasoline in Ohio in the winter you are buying ADM product
 G> (they are the ones who bought up every major ethanol distiller in the
 G> country and got uncle sam to require 10% ethanol in the winter gas
 G> mix.)

I've run 10% ethanol in several different vehicles for over 20 years with no
problems.  One nice thing about it in winter is that one doesn't have to add
HEET to the gas to prevent gas line freezeups in extremely cold weather.

 G> Well, that and about 50% of the food people buy at the grocery store..

You're confusing ADM with Cargill and/or Con-Agra there.  Cargill is perhaps
one of the largest companies that nobody ever heard of (it's privately held and
doesn't have to file those pesky reports publicly held companies do), and has
operations worldwide; I think Cargill could probably buy ADM out of petty cash
if they were so inclined, and the government would have a conniption fit because
Cargill *already* handles much if not most of the various raw grains that move
in this country.

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