decent exchange
buckminsterfuller got brazil to think about ethanol decades ago.
a republican senatorial candidate challenging boxer or feinstein i can't remember, lost in small part as he was receiving massive subsidies by the federal government for his links to ethanol plants. why republicans need to be benefitting from subsidies is beyond me and is counterintuitive to their mantra.
high fructose corn syrup is easily one of thee most addictive substances known to man. it's density for sweetning is similar to the potency improvement of cocaine to crack, old marijuana to new marijuana and causes many more problems such as early diabetes, tooth decay, obesity, fatigue, etc. try and avoid it, you can't. it's worse than salt trying to wean one's self from it. still, i'm not nanny proponent, so the new york politicians, and california for that matter will probably outlaw it at some point. and for good measure, we saturate kids with it from halloween to easter with it. i guess we could be using those acres for something else, which i guess means we can populate the earth more, redistribute resources somewhere else besides dentistry, some health care issues etc. supply and demand are really interesting. nobody has faith in it. we "need" a balance with government, skewed in favor of government being the consistent arbiter, arbattoir for freedom. there is no such thing as the invisible hand anymore, it's the visible fist of the government, squashing all small business, as they are too numerous to draw into the fold. as long as most of the people either work for the government or big business, there will be a mandate to crush small business with regulation impossible to spread costs across invisible hand vaccuums.
