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MUDGE’S Musings
If biofuels make any sense at all, and the jury is still out on that one outside the White House, and the state of Iowa, ethanol made from sugar cane rather than from corn has already been shown to be far the better choice.
First, a review. We have discussed this topic many times:
A prime source of sugar cane, that, if developed, would become the third largest source of ethanol after the U.S. and Brazil, is a mere 90 miles from our shores, in Cuba.
One of the last vestiges of the long since over 50-year Cold War is the United States’ odd non-relationship with the nation of Cuba.
One more good reason to lift the embargo on Cuba
Let’s seize the potential of the nation’s sugar-based ethanol — before China beats us to it.
By Joe Conason
July 18, 2008 | Listening to the mouthpieces of the oil industry on talk radio and cable television — as well as in the Bush White House — one gets the impression that we must start drilling in America’s coastal waters immediately. If only we unleash the oilmen to explore and exploit, then the price of gasoline will start to fall, the scheming petroleum cartel will collapse, and the United States will be independent once again. And if we don’t unleash the oilmen, then the Chinese communists will siphon off all the oil from the coast of Cuba before we can even launch a rowboat into the Caribbean.
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