$7 Corn

[Dusty]

That is one of the major downsides of democracy.  It is not very effecient and the right decision is hardly ever the popular one.  So our government keeps making the wrong decisions because everyone wants to get re-elected.

 

[knabe]

ethanol competes in the open market with petroleum. 

best way to drive down prices, competition, rather than subsidies.  duh.

 

[shorthorns r us]

Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for those are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history

Who said it?

 

[Dusty]

Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for those are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history

Who said it?

Will and Ariel Durant.

 

[shorthorns r us]

googling doesn't count 

 

[knabe]

i had an old boss and she consoled me after one of my endless perfect ideas wasn't listened to AGAIN.

"look knabe, ideas are a dime a dozen, 50% are terrible 40% won't even matter, and 10% or less are even good ideas."

i think i pouted one more time and she gave me a tampon.  lesson learned.