Reply #31: Starvation is one of the most heinous tools of oppression.

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Any more I think that's what this promotion of ethanol is all about. Upper and middle class U.S. citizens don't pay much attention to the price of food -- food costs are not a huge fraction of their income. But if you are poor it is another story.

I think the Machiavellian cretins who run this nation believe destabilization of central and south American nations, especially those that lean left, is a good thing, and that restricting the overall supply of inexpensive food in the Western Hemisphere is one means of accomplishing that.

Ethanol as a a transportation fuel is stupid on the face of it -- the technology for making much better fuels than ethanol from agricultural products is solid. That's why I think something else is going on here.

Or maybe it's simply old-fashioned dumb-ass U.S. corruption and hookers at the Watergate Hotel.