LOL, you say worhtless congress like that is a bad thing. My perfect congressional year woudl be one where exactly zero bills were passed. Since congress has the track record of being wrong a majority of the time, by not passing anything they'd actually improve their track record.

As far as ethanol, why doesn't the business community make the billions that are apparently there for the taking. If ethanol is the answer ADM (largest agribusiness comapny in the world) is foregoingn hundreds of billions in profits. I assume they are complete morons. Or of course it could be that ethanol as currently produced is about $15 a gallon and thus just a congressional ploy to move tax dollars into agriculture states while making a nice little sound bite for the well meaning and uninformed. The first guy to come up with a practical and economical substiture for gasoline will be the next Bill Gates. If you are depending on gov't to do that you are smoking some very fine stuff. The business world is scrambling to be first on this. The technology isn't there but it will be in time. Can't wait for that day myself, since it will actually give us amazing leverage over China (the actual reason oil prices have gone up) and independence from OPEC but you are looking the wrong direction for the solution my friend. Gov't is usually a problem and almost never a solution.

Off to burn a few hundred thousand gallons of dead dinosaurs in my airplane hauling liberals to rallies ranting about Cheney setting oil prices. Sorry, just a joke but oh so true when it comes to our society full of very well meaning people who act completely the opposite of what they say.

Enjoy casting your ballot. Then I suggest storing some food stuffs and ammunition. LOL. Freedom, its a bitch ain't it.

AK