| Anybody seen info on other sources of ethanol? Using corn cuts into the food supply. But how about sugar beets? Potato and other starchy vegetable waste? Seems that with a bit of creativity, we could find easy-to-grow crops that ferment easily.
Another thing that might help is making (finally) a big investment in fuel efficient mass transit. Most of the developed world is way ahead of us in that arena.
The old arguments against mass transit subsidies don't hold up any more IMO. And, after all, the automobile industry has been hugely subsidized for generations. It's time to move on. Get with the program. I dunno, how about 250MPH monorails wailing down tracks built above the medians of the interstate system?
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