In less than a few years; smart (hungry, homeless) American millions will think back at this debate and suffer dry heaves and it won't be from drinking corn whiskey. I think we are too distracted and have such big asses as a country anymore to begin to comprehend the ramifications of this debate. We also don't give a whit for our children's future. Air bombing Iran will jump start the whole shit storm and hasten mass bankruptcy, economic collapse and the much needed end of the American empire.
Here's a pertinent exchange:
Q. - RAY SUAREZ: Robert Bryce, you heard Bob Dinneen here in Washington talking about ramping up production capability, ramping up consumer capability of buying this stuff. Will those things get us to where the president and the car executives said we ought to be?
A. - ROBERT BRYCE, Energy Tribune Magazine: No, they won't. And, you know, what is interesting to me in writing about the energy business and following this issue is how so much of this push for ethanol is couched in terms of national security, and imports, and so on, and so forth.
The reality of the ethanol business now in America is that a lot of this rhetoric is simply being used to propagate more subsidies for this industry. The creation of corn ethanol is simply -- it borders on fiscal insanity. We're making subsidized motor fuel out of the single most subsidized crop in America. That's corn.
Second, when you look at the contribution now that corn ethanol is making and ethanol overall to the American oil mix, the ethanol industry produced about five billion gallons last year. That's the equivalent of about 200,000 barrels a day of oil equivalent. That's 1 percent of America's overall energy consumption.
People can't re-build and expand rail services fast enough, or start learning how to live with a lot less and grow as much of their own food as possible. This argument about keeping the American car culture sputtering along is not only futile, but wastes billions of dollars and precious time. Real energy independence begins at home. Listen to the very end of this interview for just a small hint of what the corporations have in store for you at the gas pumps tomorrow.
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