Fuel insanity makes for freakish headlines

I deeply resent -- well, I personally hate -- this ethanol bunk at the gas station.

It wasn't enough that they System had played 42 different mind games on us over gasoline, from the highly questionable shortages of the 1970s (higher prices, color flags indicated supply in front of each gas station, people shooting each other while waiting in the line burning gas by the hour) to the so-called war on terror (supposedly fought for to protect us, but roundly defended in terms of prices at the gas pump) to today's gas price nightmares.

That wasn't enough. They had to suddenly determine that what we'd been missing all this time was some nice Mazola oil in the tank.

There was lots of yap for a few years. Then suddenly gas was ubiquitously combined with Mazola. Surely it should be optional in this freest country in the world whether or not to buy the mixture, but whoa, how could I forget, we're not free anymore -- we had to give up our freedoms to save our freedoms! So now a mixture of gasoline and Mazola is what you get at the pump.

If you don't like having every decision made by Big Mother, you have as much choice to opt out as you do from having fluoride in your tap water. Wait, I stand corrected -- we still have freedom of choice with both! What am I thinking -- you can sure as shootin' have real gasoline sans Mazola and all the fluoride-free water you want..... if you're willing, respectively, to pay 25c more per gallon of gas and spend a few hundred on a water filtration system. Filtering H2O takes time, mind you, so there will be a slight delay of two hours for every pint you plan to drink.

Fidel Castro called it a sin to use food for fuel. This was deemed a crazy extremist view because he's a brutal communist dictator, right? Actually, I fear for any society that doesn't have his common sense on this one issue......

http://www.pe.com/local-news/riverside-county/hemet/hemet-headlines-index/20121228-hemet-cooking-grease-theft-suspects-caught.ece
Fast-food owner nabs McBiofuel Bandit suspects

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