Hi,

Isn't the good part of ethanol is that it leaves the plant protein intact?

Jean Baugh

I don't think that high oil prices will kill the suburbs - they will return young adult families in place there. I feel that you will see less residential mobility e.g. less younger families purchasing new homes in further-and-further new developments. More and more parts of the nation including the inner ring suburbs and first collar-county suburban ring will be like the Bay Area and the outer bouroughs of NY where there is less "shame" in living with your parents as an adult. You may have your young adult urban hot spots, but if those same young adults came from the good schools of bucolic suburbs why shouldnt they just return to those areas and maintain their old house, especially if grandpa and grandma's pension is in jeopardy as is the norm more and more. The accordion/sandwhich family will be the norm, just like in many parts of Europe and Asia.

What really hurts everyone with the rising gas prices is that there has been carborators designed to produce high mileage even in our SUV's, but the oil companies have bought the patents and don't allow them to be made in the US. I know a man that got on of them in a new car he bought. The car was suppose to go over seas, but got missed placed. They did every thing to try and get that car away from him. Why don't we use these on our own cars - oil giants are just to greedy. I hope we get totally away from under the thumb of the oil giants, just like Brazil is doing. Barb Iowa