Is it generally true that MPG is lower with ethanol across the board!??!

If that’s the case, we have officially gone out of our bleeping minds putting so much into this technology. Unless I’m missing something, the private sector would never have done it, as it’s totally illogical.

Also, if we had built refineries in the past 30 years, Israel could take that out (or maybe just threaten to) and Iran might be neutered.

Now Afghanistan is our next swamp which we will pump dry just as in Iraq. All the remaining seekers of Jihad glory will flock to Afghanistan to fight the Americans. The fires of Jihad will burn itself out in a last ditch effort to regain their legitimacy to the Muslim world. In the end, OBL will be condemned as an person who engaged in Jihad Adventurism causing harm to Islam’s standing in the world.

This will leave the question of Iran yet to be answered. IMO, the Arab countries in the Persian Gulf area are getting really nervous about Iran’s nukes and threats to blockade the Strait of Hormuz. The solution lies with the Arabs States of the area, they have the power in their hands to bring Iran to it’s knees. Half of all Iranian gasoline consumption must be imported, they have the power to cut off that supply and thus finish off Iran economically within a month. The Israeli’s or the US can deliver the final blow with destroying Iran’s one and only gasoline refinery thus collapsing the Iranian economy and would be the final straw to forment Regime Change.

Let’s not kid ourselves, any significant movement from the internal combustion engine to the electric car will force an additional increase in electric consumption and thus drive up those prices as well. Are you prepared to pay $400/month electric bills??? Without a significant expanision of coal and nuclear power to supply the baseload, the cost of living is going to skyrocket harming the poor most of all. So much for Dems watching out for the little guy, they’re just unfortunately collateral damage along the way to a panacea of an oil free economy.

And here I talked about illegal immigration: http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/05/the_immigration_bill_sells_out.html

I couldn’t find anything readily available on Yuma AZ being a sanctuary city. But while looking I did come across this gem: http://www.cis.org/trends_and_enforcement

Our best estimate is that the illegal immigrant population has declined by 11 percent through May 2008 after hitting a peak in August 2007.
The implied decline in the illegal population is 1.3 million since last summer, from 12.5 million to 11.2 million today.
The estimated decline of the illegal population is at least seven times larger than the number of illegal aliens removed by the government in the last 10 months, so most of the decline is due to illegal immigrants leaving the country on their own.
One indication that stepped-up enforcement is responsible for the decline is that only the illegal immigrant population seems to be affected; the legal immigrant population continues to grow.
Another indication enforcement is causing the decline is that the illegal immigrant population began falling before there was a significant rise in their unemployment rate.
The importance of enforcement is also suggested by the fact that the current decline is already significantly larger than the decline during the last recession, and officially the country has not yet entered a recession.
While the decline began before unemployment rose, the evidence indicates that unemployment has increased among illegal immigrants, so the economic slow-down is likely to be at least partly responsible for the decline in the number of illegal immigrants.
There is good evidence that the illegal population grew last summer while Congress was considering legalizing illegal immigrants. When that legislation failed to pass, the illegal population began to fall almost immediately.
If the decline were sustained, it would reduce the illegal population by one-half in the next five years.

I would call that really good news and yet not a word from the MSM…