About this time two years ago I remember being inspired by a new alternative fuel. That fuel was ethanol produced from corn and other grain crops. It sounded like a great idea at the time and I remember being proud that the company I work for HEB, for those who don't know would be the first retailor in Texas to offer it to the General public. But since then we have learned that we have been duped. In the rare cases that ethanol has been added to the gasoline mix the price remain high and the octane level falls down. But at least one could say that the corn farmers of America are beneifiting from this new lucrative corn business. NOT!!! Just like in everything else they do the oil companies are taking huge profits and paying low prices for corn and oil for that matter and then charging the public like crazy. Everyone suffers even the retailors I was at a HEB meeting and we were discussing profit margins and I was shocked to find out that make little to nothing off of gasoline sales and that the station is only there to promote traffic in the center store. Ethanol isn't even that better for the environment it takes insane amounts of petroluem to produce this corn oil. Also the diversion of corn and other grain crops from the mainstream food market has caused shortages sparking food shortages and riots across the globe. We have no right to burn food in our tanks when people are starving to death.This is ridiculous leave to the Oil companies to screw up a potentialy good idea. We need to take the responsibilty of alternative fuel sources out of private fuel companies and place it in the hands of the government. Its insane its like giving someone a gun and then asking them to shoot themselves in the head. The Oil companies are not going to dig their own grave. We need to take responsibilty for our own future.
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