[Grovenet] America's Trillion-Dollar Baby

[Steven]

I heard that there are shortages of corn because we are using so much 
for ethanol conversion.
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JohnSpurlock/Montenegro/018265.html

Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
> Are you helping support the man who tells Secretary of State Rice to "Go to
> Hell?" (1)
>
> We all do, every time you pump some gas. 
>
> Of course, I'm speaking of President Chavez of Venezuela from whom the USA
> purchases about 560 million barrels of oil each year to supply our needs(2).
> Figure $50/bbl. You do the math.
>
> It's a crazy world when a supplier can abuse and ridicule his customers. But
> then, we're not customers. We're addicts, as hooked on oil as any bum in the
> gutter is hooked on drugs. 
>
> I don't like to think of my country as a "bum in the gutter" of the world,
> so dependent upon the resources of other nations that we have to bow down
> and prostrate ourselves before people like him. 
>
> Iraq isn't our only problem. I wonder if it's even our biggest problem.
> Perhaps the biggest problem is right here at home, sitting at the gas pumps
> in service stations all over the country. 
>
> Ron D'Eau Claire 
>
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> (1) http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070122/ts_nm/chavez_venezuela_us_dc_4
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> (2)
> http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level
> _imports/current/import.html
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