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br> Re: Iain Murray & William Yeatman's Food Before Fuel : /p> p>This is probably going to sound crazy, but I think the push toward corn-based fuels will, pardon the pun, "sow the seeds" of violent revolution. How? As corn prices skyrocket, and our friends South of the border feel the pinch, they will blame the fat Americans and their big SUVs. While the TV will have images of starving Mexicans, the United States will be blamed for attempted genocide; and the Left will finally be able to "legitimately" equate the United States with Nazi Germany. Los Angeles will grind to a halt with protest after protest; "Stop The Genocide!"; "You Drive; We Die!" Meanwhile, Democrats will decry the violence and our obscene "addiction" to oil. All the while mandating even more draconian environmental measures...and ride the coattails to permanent majority status. Sound crazy? br> -- Jon Lindquist br> Las Vegas, Nevada /p>

Messrs. Murray and Yeatman have correctly identified the dirty little secret concerning the 2005 Energy Bill.

Why does Congress think it has a mandate to manipulate our free market? This supposed power is mentioned nowhere in the U.S. Constitution -- and don't for a second use the canard of interstate commerce for justification -- it is nothing but a red herring.

Where are Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, Walter E. Williams, and Thomas Sowell when you need them the most. Free market thinkers, all.

Congress' Invisible Hand is once again leaving the American Taxpayer in the dust.

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