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Except the farmers that want to continue receiving subsidies and keep food prices high and the politicians from farming states that want to keep the pork flowing.Ivan Seeking said:I think everyone now realizes that corn-ethanol is a losing proposition.
Natural gas (and LPG) should definitely be reserved for vehicles and direct home heating, the trouble with many eco power schemes is that their unreliability of supply means they need to be backed by quick response gas stations. I don't know if it is going to take a major change such as a market for hydrogen to make wind power economical.
The main aim of the oil Independence goal has to be to change people's thinking. Since the 1950s the philosophy has been that to consume is patriotic - that needs to change to a war on waste mentality.