Total Freaking Insanity

I Just was watching a pizza shop owner, being interviewed on CNN, complaining about how a 50 pound sack of flour has doubled in cost this last month to $37.00/sack.

Why? Because of the huge American demand for ethanol - which is made from corn - American farmers have switched from growing wheat to growing corn. Don't blame the farmers... they're just trying to make a buck.

At the same time, OPEC is continuing to raise the cost of oil, which raises the cost of fuel, which raises the cost of transportation on everything we buy... food, clothes, gas, heating oil... everything.

Meanwhile, 60% of our wheat is being exported because the weakening dollar makes our wheat cheaper to foreigners than anybody elses wheat. As the dollar continues to weaken due to the insane fed policies of creating mountains of cash out of nothing to "save" our economy, our wheat gets cheaper and cheaper to all the foreign buyers and more expensive to us, so we have less wheat available to produce our food.

Everything made from flour is going up-up-up in price because of this. Your grocery bill is going to double real soon.
Here is the insane part.

A gallon of ethanol takes 1.4 times the amount of energy to produce than it delivers.


When you burn up a gallon of ethanol, you have contributed to more than double the energy usage and pollution of normal gasoline. When you use a gallon of ethanol, you have already used up the equivalent amount of energy in 1.4 gallons of gasoline, which means more energy consumption and more pollution using ethanol, not less.

That is just plain insane.

What the hell is wrong with Americans that they buy into this insanity? What the hell is wrong with our federal government to sanction and allow such insanity?

One other little new item today... Venezuela's America hating Hugo Chavez just announced he intends to get the price of oil up to $200.00/barrel, and the Israel/America hating Arabs said sure, why not?

So, in the near future, when you buy that $6.00/gallon gas and that $5.00/loaf of bread, keep in mind our ethanol programs that have promoted and forced down our throats by those freaking, insane environmentalists, who are actually increasing pollution and costs because of their warped and poorly thought-out ideas.

Also keep in mind as prices go through the roof and your money goes to hell, that's it's our Congress that has made the laws that made this all possible... our greedy, bought-out and completely crooked Congress.

Oh yes... since our farmers are now planting much less corn, the cost of corn is going through the roof also, which simply means that the cost of ethanol will skyrocket... higher than petroleum-based gasoline.

Isn't that wonderful?