DISQUS

Excellent coverage of the topic! The rest of the story is that the ethanol-driven price of corn is translating to higher grocery prices that everyone is feeling the affects of. The government determined a cheap food policy in the 1930's and has been involved ever since. Looking at alternative fuels is a necessity, but how can we shift food production to fuel production? Farmers have a right to make the most profit possible, but someone should have considered the consequences of playing with the market. The current ethanol mandates are harming everyone in agriculture --- most people I know are intimately involved with agricutlure at least three times a day.

Excellent coverage of the topic! The rest of the story is that the ethanol-driven price of corn is translating to higher grocery prices that everyone is feeling the affects of. The government determined a cheap food policy in the 1930's and has been involved ever since. Looking at alternative fuels is a necessity, but how can we shift food production to fuel production? Farmers have a right to make the most profit possible, but someone should have considered the consequences of playing with the market. The current ethanol mandates are harming everyone in agriculture --- most people I know are intimately involved with agricutlure at least three times a day.

Steve Bell and Senator Domenici hit the mark! Other user groups have tried for YEARS to work with the wildernss people in a give and take fashion --- some land may be pristine and deserve wilderness designation, other lands currently carring a Wilderness Study Area designation have no business ever being wilderness and should be returned to multiple use. That means hiking, biking, camping, horseback riding, grazing, bird watching and more. The wilderness people have steadfastly refused to even to have discussion about what should or should not be wilderness. They want it all regardless of the law. The Wilderness Alliance Dona Ana proposal attempted to take in PRIVATE PROPERTY which was never even contemplated in the Wilderness Act. Hurray for Senator Domenici for respecting private propety rights as well as the custom and culture of the land of enchantment.

Steve Bell and Senator Domenici hit the mark! Other user groups have tried for YEARS to work with the wildernss people in a give and take fashion --- some land may be pristine and deserve wilderness designation, other lands currently carring a Wilderness Study Area designation have no business ever being wilderness and should be returned to multiple use. That means hiking, biking, camping, horseback riding, grazing, bird watching and more. The wilderness people have steadfastly refused to even to have discussion about what should or should not be wilderness. They want it all regardless of the law. The Wilderness Alliance Dona Ana proposal attempted to take in PRIVATE PROPERTY which was never even contemplated in the Wilderness Act. Hurray for Senator Domenici for respecting private propety rights as well as the custom and culture of the land of enchantment.