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Re: There is the progressive la la land, where all the lines coverge to utopia, in the minds of the idealist and then there is the real world where government intervention screws some things up worse than they were or would have been. imho hge

There's a legitimate business rationale for taking unused crops, and instead of disposing of them, convert them to biofuels. It's a win in terms of the costs of disposing of these crops, and it's a win in a supplemental source of energy to meet our country's increasing energy demand - you know, as opposed to buying more oil from the Middle East.

But listening to your rhetoric, I might conclude that we shouldn't look at biofuels at all, because some irresponsible government loophole might abuse it, and therefore we should let these crops decompose in a dump somewhere, where our energy needs still go unresolved.

I think your cynical point of view would be a waste, and it fails to address anything. I would rather invest in biofuels *and* invest the time required to make sure the legislation enforces the kind of usage that would be beneficial for us, without leading to farming expansion in the Brazilian rainforest.

That's not utopian, ideological wishful thinking. It just makes fu*king sense.