The Hill Street Blahg

You could have knocked me over with a feather when I ran across this article in the extremely Liberal Boston Globe. “Can’t eat ethanol”, so says the Boston Globe. The Globe went on to say the following.

CORN should be used for food, not motor fuel, and yet the United States is committed to a policy that encourages farmers to turn an increasing amount of their crop into ethanol. This may save the nation a bit of the cost of imported oil, but it increases global-warming gases and contributes to higher food prices.

Candidates for president need to tell Americans the truth about ethanol, but they are falling over themselves in pursuit of the farm belt vote. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton want more ethanol factories built than even President Bush envisaged when he called for 15 percent of US gasoline consumption to be replaced by alternative fuels by 2017. John McCain, who correctly called the ethanol push a boondoggle in 2000, now says that it is “a very important way to achieve energy independence.”

Ethanol madness is costing the average American consumer plenty. What were President George Bush and the inept energy experts in Congress thinking when they decided corn was the answer to all of our energy problems? Apparently they forgot corn played a major role in almost every food item known to mankind. Every food item we consume, from meat products to our Post Toasties, the common denominator in that food item is corn. Corn is king…the Indians knew it, so why couldn’t the government figure it out? According to the Boston Globe article, energy experts Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are proposing even more ethanol production to ease our pain at the pumps. It’s amazing how much knowledge these two candidates possess. In reality, it takes even the most educated and informed individual a lifetime to become proficient in just one professional skill and yet these two professional politicians seemingly know it all. It must be wonderful to be so incredibly smart.

This government subsidized boondoggle is just another shining example of spineless government officials appeasing special interest groups instead of responsibly taking the bull by the horns and doing what needs to be done. This country runs on oil and the only viable answer to our energy problems is to explore and drill for more oil. It’s no secret there are ample oil fields in Anwar and off-shore just waiting to be tapped. We also need to build more oil refineries, clean burning coal fired plants, and eco-friendly nuclear power plants. Why is this so hard to figure out?