Jim,
Your research is incomplete. The evidence is just below our border in Mexico. Please don't resort to throwing names like most
leftards do when presented with the facts. If you consider the surface area required to harvest oil bearing produce that equates
to just 50% of our current petroleum consumption, there would be no available room for food production. Even if there would be
with the advent of shelved production of algae, the demand on our existing water resources would exceed their capacity by a very
large margin. Also, because oil is still the best battery known (With the exception of Nuclear), there is no known substitute.
Think energy density. Not only does that energy medium have to exist, it must also be competitive in cost. Nobody will cut their
standard of living on purpose nor should they. Please also remember that technical innovation can never be legislated. Shame on
those that think otherwise.
Steve

"jim" wrote in message .. .
Steve Lusardi wrote:

Worst of all, ethanol use as fuels raises the price of corn and other
grains across the market place denying food to the poor across the world.

Hogwash.

The US ethanol boom is the best thing that has happened to the poor acoss the world. The fact is, that the vast majority of the
Worlds poor live in 3rd world rural economies. And do you know what the vast majority of the poor do for a living? They grow
grain.
And for the last 60 they have been turned into "the poor across the world" because of US predatory Ag policies that has
destroyed
their livelihood. Even India and China which today have booming economies, the majority of the citizens still live on farms and
still grow grain for a living. The current rising world grain prices represent the first opportunity since WWII for millions of
the
worlds citizens to raise themselves out subsistence poverty.

It's not as if anything good has been done with corn in the past. What isn't used as part of a foreign policy to prop up 3rd
world
dictatorships and destroy the livelihood of the millions who are living in rural economies is used mostly to produce vast
quantities of animal fat in cows, pigs and chickens. I mean look around The US population is suffering from an epidemic of
obesity,
heart desease and diabetes. There are millions of tons of corn sweetners peddled to US children in schools. That is the
status-quo.
And yes ethanol is a very definite threat to that status-quo, but you have to be a pervert with a twisted sense of morality to
think that people should be morally outraged by that.

-jim