In article >,
George > wrote:

> Dee Dee wrote:
>
> >
> > Here in the US, there are notices on every product that I've purchased
> > about
> > the energy consumption. It's always been a consideration to me.
> >
> > People always are making blanket statements regarding the U.S.'s thinking
> > on
> > just about everything and offering their opinions about the pysche of
> > America --
> >
> > Dee Dee
> >
> >
> I live in the US and there are lots of single occupant drivers of
> trucks driven as a fashion statement wasting millions of gallons of
> gasoline every day for which we compensate by grinding up corn to make
> ethanol which has significantly increased the price of anything using
> the corn such as poultry, milk etc. Anyone observing this could rightly
> shake their head.

One has to ask why the price of diesel is higher than Regular gas.
It's a cheap by-product to be burned by cheap engines.

Methinks someone is profiteering off of us, yet again.

And it drives up the price of food due to deliver costs.
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