[speedgibson] Speed Gibson: Everything we know is wrong

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Posted by Speed Gibson:
Everything we know is wrong
http://speedgibson.powerblogs.com/posts/1209162975.shtml


   Anybody remember the TV mini-series "V" from 1983? It's time for a
   25th Anniversary Edition isn't it? Digitally remastered? I always
   think back to this show when I read about Ethanol.
   The "Visitors" arrived spectacularly but peacefully, seeking our help.
   In return for technology, we allowed them to alter some oil refineries
   to manufacture a chemical they needed back on their home world. Soon
   we found that all they had really come for was food and water, the
   latter secretly in the form of the obscure chemical. We humans were
   the former.
   Such a plot would never go over today, of course. We no longer have
   any spare oil refinery capacity. Oh wait - maybe we do: all those
   Ethanol plants! Oh wait - maybe the Visitors are here already, having
   us turn water into a useless chemical. Oh wait - our Visitors did the
   "V" Visitors one better, by having the unintended consequences kill us
   off for them via starvation and environmental damage. With "go juice"
   approaching $4 a gallon, thanks to the enviro-loons, we can't even
   afford to drive to get away.
   We puny humans did finally defeat the Visitors in the mini-series,
   once we knew what was really going on. I think the Proletariat may yet
   triumph over Ethanol, too. The evidence is now in plain sight: food
   riots and third world hunger.
   Even the misanthropic are finally speaking up, concerned at least for
   the damage to Mother Earth. Paul Krugman is finally starting to get
   it. Even Time and Newsweek are openly questioning the whole concept.
   Al Gore is incommunicado. Our local "experts" including Prime Minister
   Pawlenty are talking about "transitioning" to switch grass to keep
   this nonsense alive. I wonder if they will have the time.
   We see the prices rising sharply in the grocery stores. We get why
   there is unrest and now hoarding in the world. We realize now that
   Ethanol, far from saving us money as a domestic energy source, is
   having the net opposite effect - as some predicted long ago. Words
   like "scam" are finally creeping into press accounts. Everything [DEL:
   we :DEL] they [DEL: know :DEL] knew about Ethanol is wrong.
   We can bank the fire a little ourselves, commiserating with our
   friends, relatives, and neighbors about our trips to the gas station
   and the grocery stores. Tell them why. And tell them to tell their
   representatives. At a minimum, we should shut down the E-85 pumps
   immediately.
   For this will be the summer of our discontent.