The terror bankers

Methanol, as currently produced and sold, is a losing proposition, most energy analysts will tell you, requiring huge government subsidies: Big Corn replaces Big Oil. That wouldn’t be the case if all we could get was methanol, as this analysis contends. Of course, that could only come about by government mandate and the Bush administration–indeed, most Republicans, except Nixon and his price controls of yore–don’t like issuing mandates. Besides, the terror bankers, meaning "our friends" the Saudis, have their hands in too many high political pockets for anyone to seriously commit to such a course. So get used to the war on terror, folks. Its explosives’ and weapons’ purveyors get a fresh boost everytime we buy gas.