[SEL] Corn-gas a BUST! - OT

[Rob Skinner]

On Sep 26, 2007, at 6:40 AM, Arnie Fero wrote:

> This month's cover story in National Geographic magazine has a really
> comprehensive article on the subject.



Come now, Fero.

The article is another example of why I don't subscribe to National  
Geographic.  They make a pretty magazine with awesome photography,  
print it on nice paper, and supplement it with prose from writers who  
can construct a sentence as pretty as Monet could paint.  But the the  
writers are clearly the product of today's liberal universities, with  
their left leaning slant and ecological fanaticism.

Consider the conclusion of the article, titled "Hard Numbers."  The  
argument in favor of ethanol is that it has an "undeniable romance."   
Quoted is some joker who makes his living relying on a government  
subsidized boondoggle:  "I'm sitting in a river in a canoe.  Now do I  
want to paddle upstream, or do I want to go with the flow?"

WTF is that?  If I want squishy feelings and metaphor, I'll read  
fiction.  When I want hard numbers and facts, I turn to someplace  
other than National Geographic.

Rob