"Omelet" > wrote in message
>
> No, they are using the method that will drive stock prices up the
> highest and rip off people that are already on the edge of their budgets.
>
> The rich get richer and the poor get poorer and the middle class takes
> it up the rectum. As always.

I've heard that argument for everything for the past 60 years. One of the
things that makes America great is that we can all become rich if we want
to.

Who benefits from higher stock prices? I do, for one. If you have a 401k
or IRA, chances are you do too. We all want growth in our portfolios, the
lowest prices in good but we want them made in the USA, we want big houses
and small heating bills, bug cars and good gas mileage. We complain how MS
software sucks but cannot write a program of our own, we want low, low
prices at the store with the dumb smiley face but complain when the local
store goes out of business. And on and on.

Not to mention that the whole ethanol thing is a scam anyway. It has two
advantages. It is used to replace MTBE in gas and it eliminated the need to
use Dry Gas as an additive in the tank. Aside from that, it is still,
AFAIK, a negative using more energy than it produces.