Do you think Al Franken has a chance to win? When he talked about soy and corn for fuel, I wondered what Green Giant thought about that. My nieces took me across Minnesota from Minneapolis to Wyoming a few years ago and I was amazed at the big fields on consignment. I guess the same kind of question is being asked in Iowa with their corn production.
One of the things he didn't seem to mention was the fossil fuel supplies in the States. In Northeastern Wyoming the oil patch has become less important than methane, as I'm sure you know since you're in energy information. The methane from the Powder River Basin is a big deal. The little road from Gillette to Casper was widened and fiber optic cable was laid because of a monitoring station, in Lusk I believe. I read some of the articles from High Country News and know that there are big questions about future expansion.
I live in TVA land now. In the early 80's we had brownouts and it affected ALCOA with their high electric usage. They started several nuclear plants and abandoned most. All of this is my way of saying that starting a lot of projects to produce sudden energy ends up with some failures. I try to keep up with the various new technologies. Wired Magazine sent me a little "Geekipedia" and one thing which struck my attention was under Energy Alternatives. Each new form has its good points and hard-to-do points. Boom and bust is the nature of the energy business. Just as Carter's administration got through the tax advantages for deep drilling, which opened up land in that part of Wyoming I referred to, there was a oil glut.
I guess what I really wonder about is whether Al Franken realizes how some states will work against other states (in the Senate) because the economy demands it. And that could make a good amount of gridlock in Congress, which we have plenty of now.
At any rate, thank you for keeping up with the topic, and I hope to see other posts by you.