Re: E-85

Chumango: your anti-government argument is simplistic and largely irrelevant. While you may be technically correct that the government does nothing to produce the oil, its difficult to envision a world in which there would be any market for oil without governments, ours in particular. Our government built the roads that created the demand for gasoline in the first place and over which the petroleum products are transported to that market. Our government grants leases and/or licenses to drill for oil on public land. Our government grants tax breaks for oil exploration, etc.

To equate oil company profits with taxes is equally fallacious.

MTB: its easy to blame the baby boomers for the way this country has turned out, but such facile explanations don't square with reality and are not helpful. I'm a baby boomer, but I don't recall my father or people of my father's generation ever caring much about how much oil they consumed or how much exhaust they spewed into the air. Similarly, a large part of the market for large SUVs comprises people born after the end of the baby boom.