can't afford gasoline

[billatlake]

I wrote it at work yesterday:  We were discussing ethanol prices,  as the utility I work for serves a large ethanol plant,  and the news had reported record profits for ethanol.  A 22 cent/gallon tax exemption runs out may 1, IIRC.  That plant had been shut down for months at a time more than once,  waiting for tax exemptions to make it profitable.. 
Ethanol isn't perfect,  as it does produce some polution at the point of manufacture,  but better in the middle of nowhere  ( north central ND )  than concetrated in any town.

On a lighter note;  Moses led the chosen people through the desert for 40 years..

and stopped in the only place in the middle east that wasn't floating on oil!