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To: Diana in Wisconsin
"There are four main ingredients in the price of gas: crude oil prices, the refinery process, distribution and marketing, and taxes."

Why do they ignore the cost of ethanol, the "gift that keeps on giving?"

It bites us from both ends, resulting in higher food prices, higher taxes for the handouts to farmers that make it economically viable, AND the REDUCED FUEL MILEAGE that results from the use of a lower-energy-content additive (ethanol) in our gasoline!

3 posted on 05/22/2008 6:03:28 AM PDT by Redbob (WWJBD - "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: Redbob

Agreed. Living in a Ag State, I can assure you that there are literally thousands of farming families lining up for this government-created boondoggle. My family is one of them. Dad usually plants both corn and soybean; this year it’s 240 acres of corn, only.

Gotta make hay while the sun shines, right? It’s hard to walk away from that $6 bucks per bushel price that we’ve never seen before in our lifetimes. ;)


5 posted on 05/22/2008 6:09:46 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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