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Default Food shortage ethanol follies, I've planted a food garden.

Stormin Mormon wrote:
How come we can't convince the tree hugers to go jump off a cliff, so we can
build some more refineries, and drill the oil that's on US soil?


Because it's not a sustainable plan. It's still cheaper to import oil
than to produce it domestically. Hence, the search for economically
viable alternative (preferably renewable) energy sources.

Based on current US policy, though, domestic drilling would be a better
idea than anything currently enacted.

nate

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