Ethanol!!! Big oil has not been able to sink its teeth into the ethanol industry. they are fighting it tooth and nail saying that it won't work. It can be done and should be done. It will hit them in the pocket book real hard over time. If we can cut gas usage by switching to at least 25% ethanol, Then we have cut their profits by a fourth. Being we are the largest user of gasoline in the world, that would really hurt. The fact that they are so outspoken against Ethanol tells me something. If you don't buy gas for a day and they see it will cause a glut in gasoline stocks then they will simply cut refining until stocks lower again to their liking. The best way to hurt them is to severly curb demand by not using gas. You are also diversifying the source of energy and the people who get the money with renewable fuels. That makes big oil less powerful and creates a competition with an alternative source. That is when the prices will go down or at least stabilize. There are other things this will help as well. It will cut back the need of foreign oil and it will cut back the money paid to farmers as subsidies. I am a corn farmer and will not need subsidies with corn over 4 dollars a bushell. I can finnaly make money from the market and not from the government in the form of a welfare check. If inflation was added in from the 1970's, corn would be 15 dollars a bushell now. So it is still cheap at 6 or 7 dollars a bushell. That makes 4 dollar corn bargain basement cheap although you will hear people say that it should never go this high. They need to try to grow it one time and find out it don't grow for free. This is knocking out several birds with one stone. Bottom line is that you are paying higher prices for food either through higher market prices that support my living or you pay higher through taxes to keep me afloat. I'd rather have it through fair market prices. Sorry to get off topic but Ethanol dovetails into several different important issues. The main thing is there is a vehicle in place to cut the power of big oil and it is Ethanol. CF
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