[gduke]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by R Wilco
[B]I have worked for a major chem plant for 27 years.

I don't mean to offend anyone, nothing personal. One of the reasons that ethanol isn't working is because there are too many plants already and they are sprouting up everywhere in this country. When there were few plants and corn was $2/bushel, those who built plants benefited the most. Now that every co-op on the country is building one and corn is $4/bushel, who is benefiting besides the farmer? Nobody would benefit without government mandates that keep ethanol prices artificially high and government paychecks. The more the ethanol the government mandates we use the higher the cost of not only the product, but the price of corn and everything made from corn. So, the buck twenty per gallon soon becomes $1.30,$1.40,$1.50,.....etc.

Who's really the villain, big oil or the corn farmers?

Gary