Most people want to be right all the time.  I want to be right all the time.  But there is a big difference between being right and just thinking you are.  Sometimes we lie to others, sometimes we just lie to ourselves and sometimes we just don't know the truth to begin with.We have 2 houses of congress full of people who think they are right making decsions for us and guess what, somebody is wrong.  Somebody is either knowingly or unkonwingly making some bad decsions because they are wrong.

 

Some policies are based on opinion.  Things like the Iraq war.  Anyone can throw up a humdred and one "what if" scenerios which makes it hard for people to nail down who's right and who's wrong.  But for many issues there is a clear right or wrong.  Take ethanol for example.  I was for all for it, now not so much.  I don't care which party is for it or against it.  I don't care if I have to admit I'm wrong.  Determining the truth about ethanol is an 8th grade science fair project.  Congress needs to watch Myth Busters.

 

I want to do what is right and best for our country.  I want congress to cut through the crap and fully support or fully reject ethanol based on the truth.  I will have more respect and support for a congressman or senator who tells me the truth regardless of which party they are in even if it conflicts with my current beliefs.  You want my vote, earn it by telling the truth.

 

Are you for or against ethanol?  Does ethanol polute less than gas?  Does ethanol yeild more fuel per unit of oil than gas?  Does ethanol take food off our tables and lead to higher food prices?  Does milage go down when you run ethanol?  The answer to these questions are not opinon.  They are easily provable facts.  So before we potentially go any further down the wrong road, lets have a science fair.  The funny thing about math and science is if you enter that world without bias you will always find the truth.

 

Why can't we take some flex fuel vehicles down to the Daytona race track and run some laps?  Simple science, put and measured amount of gas in a vehicle take it up to 55, lock on the cruise and run it dry see how far you get.  Repeat with ethanol.  Do this three times average your results and tell me the truth.  Measure the emissions and use a little fifth grade math and find out which fuel polutes more.  They say all the corn that goes to ethanol still gets into the feed system for livestock and we actually get more out of the same amount of grain.  Really, how hard is that to prove.  Back to fifth grade math.  If farmer Brown sells 20 tons of corn to the local ethanol plant to make fuel, how much corn does the ethanol plant need to sell to cattlemen for feed to equal 100%? Show me the receipts! We know it we get 19 gallons of gas out of a barrel of oil.  How come we don't know how much ethanol we get out of a barrel of oil?  I would love it if ethanol turns out to be the wonder fuel that breaks our oil dependency.  But quit jerking me around and tell me the truth. 

 

Any high school science teachers looking for a class project? 

Jamie, Adam calling all Myth Busters!