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Okay. Let me get this straight. We're going to reduce fuel and energy consumption. We're going to do this by spending tax money on alternative energy sources. Alternative energy sources that are not capable now, or anytime in my projected lifetime, of providing other than a small percentage of the energy we need. Oh, we're going to trash the US economy for the foreseeable future as well, but this administration was already well down that path so we'll leave that part out. And we're going to do all of this rather than drilling for our own oil or building nuclear power plants. I think I've got it. Dare I say, you wouldn't let your teenage child out the door with that economic plan.

Glad you chose India. Probably the reason that India's GNP rose, and not from cooking the books, is that India is one of the world's least productive producers of grain, preferring to either let animals eat it or feeding it to animals. They've never come close to realizing in return the caloric output they make by feeding their grain to animals; animals they largely don't eat.

And any logistics specialist can tell you that transportation makes up maybe 5% of the cost of goods delivered. It's how you can ship a Volkswagen to the States and make a profit. And grain is far cheaper to ship. And in a free market, there are not many countries that can produce grain for as little as we can including shipping. Oh yeah, we use those big energy consuming tools called tractors and combines; they do a thousand acres in the time it takes to do one in the lesser developed portions of the world and France.