How green can businesses go? Ideas...

Don, I happen to agree with you on the ethanol thing but not for your stated reasons.

First, corn is NOT a great source of nutrients despite what people commonly believe. It is a good source of starch and fiber and not a whole lot else that you can't get better of elsewhere in the food chain.

What I object to is the conflict of interests that appears between wanting more fuel efficient vehicles and then forcing people (well, those of us in Oregon at least) to use gasoline that is contaminated with a percentage of ethanol. This results in fraud to the consumer because sometimes the facts about ethanol are virtually hidden from us, but more importantly, it results in LESS efficiency (lower MPG) in our vehicles and higher maintenace costs. So, we pay twice for the 'privilege' of being forced into using ethanol...and that doesn't count the energy costs to produce the ethanol, nor the effects on the environment. It's a bunch of hogwash.

Sandi Bowman