Please identify the gasoline subsidies. The ethanol supporters like to talk about subsidies of other fuels but I have yet to see anyone identify any specific subsidies. Of course, the rats talk about subsidies but they are referring to tax breaks for research and development that are available to a variety of industries. Ethanol subsidies and mandates are massive: mandates for the amount of ethanol blended in gasoline, subsidies for fuel tax (no federal fuel tax on ethanol), and import tariffs on foreign ethanol. There is no equivalent subsidies and mandates for gasoline. No one wants to put ethanol in their tanks. Ethanol is a boondoggle.
Subsidies, sure. How about Gulf wars one and two?
If we had not transferred billions of dollars out of our American economy to enemy Muslim nations to purchase petrolium, Iraq would not have invaded Kuwait, which they did in part for their oil, in part because they were flush with money and idle men. with no Iraqi invasion we would not have gone in and spent billions more to rescue them. This is and must be a direct charge against our cost of oil.
If Saddam Hussein had not have had billions of petrol dollars, many from the US, he would not have had the money to deveolpe WMDs or to sponser terrorism. We would not have spent additional billions to go in a second time to remove him.
How about the cost to us of 911? without billions of dollars from petroleum, Saudi Arabia would be a collection of camel hair tents, not a vastly wealthy sponser of world trerrorism and would not have funded the attack on the towers and the Pentagon.
Even the hatred level focused by these evil primitive people would not now have been focused on Western Civilization were it not for TVs and now computers spread across the Middle East and exposing them to a Western Culture that they deeply envy and are then taught to despise.
You know I could go on Professor, shall I?
larry