I conceed.

[El Kabong]

So you suggest the way to fight Opec is to deny any other sources of alternative fuels

While I think that corn ethanol is a losers game, I am not convinced (and am no expert of course) that other sources of ethanol aren't viable. While ethanol is an inferior product, if it is cheap enough I have no doubt that it can work.

I think you have stated a gross overstatement of unions Lyle. For someone that was a political science major, you should know that very few broad, over-reaching statements are thoroughly correct. Unions interact in a variety of complex ways with our changing economy, and just by pointing out UAW, which probably is the largest union, is unfair.
Blanket statements of any topic are generally incorrect.

As for the "attacks on pipelines"; when people succumb to fear in such a silly way, they might as well give up.

The way to stick it to OPEC is to produce our own oil.

Biodesiel would be the way to go if you were going to make your own fuel.

I was a PSYCHOLOGY major... Unions have done good in the past but have done nothing lately