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Richard J Kinch Richard J Kinch is offline
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Default What's going to happen with Ethanol?

RAM writes:

Make plans, now, for much higher food prices over the next year even if
they start giving fuel away.


And no one has explained how we're going to have billions of $2 gallons of
pure grain alcohol (1/25th price of legal booze) moving around the midwest
and not have a bootlegging problem that will make the troubles of the
Whiskey Rebellion and Prohibition look tame, and impose a huge societal
cost of increased drinking and alcoholism. Nobody is counting this in the
cost of this alternative "fuel". Grandma called it moonshine.

In less than a century, we go from outlawing ethanol in the US
Constitution, to making it a crime *not* to make and use it.