…and they see Ethanol as a threat. That’s why OPEC recently blamed domestic Ethanol production for high gas prices.

Diversification of our energy sources is the key to keeping prices lower. By diversifying, no single group can hold our economy hostage again. But OPEC doesn’t like that idea – for obvious reasons.

Fortunately the World BioFuels Industry has published an open letter to OPEC in the Financial Times to directly address these false accusations.

Check out the letter here at GoodFuels.org: www.goodfuels.org/opec

Let’s declare our energy independence by promoting Ethanol and other biofuels production!

I guess I was wrong, because I thought that the only use for Ethanol was in powering those FlexFuel vehicles that have the little E85 stickers on the back – you know the ones that cost about 30% more than a regular car.

Turns out, ethanol is used to replace some nasty additives in gasoline. This article by DarkPalmer (http://darkpalmer.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/the-case-for-ethanol/) provides a pretty detailed analysis of the POSITIVE side of ethanol.

The fact that it costs about 25% LESS than Regular Unleaded is just another bonus to me.

There’s a link to a petition to get Ethanol rolling: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/declare-july-4th-energy-independence-day

Visit the site at www.drivingethanol.org.

Spread the word!

It used to be that creating a social networking site required hiring a bunch of expensive developers who probably spent more time eating Doritos and playing Quake than coding up your site.

But back in 2004 a little Internet startup changed the landscape and created a system that allows anyone to get a social networking site up and running in just a few minutes – for free.

What’s great about it is that since they’ve been doing this for four years now, they’ve already worked out the bugs, and the system is nice and smooth.

You get all the expected functionality: video support, community building tools, widgets, Facebook integration, etc.

If you want to use your own domain or put your own ads up, you can but it costs a little.

Get more info at www.ning.com.

No you don’t. With all the wall-to-wall political coverage this season, the last thing we need is more of it.

That’s why the good folks at The Onion (www.theonion.com) came up with this funny 08 Election section to help us cancel out the effects of too much political news.

It’s sortof like the dark matter of news, and it may be the only thing that keeps the universe from ripping apart.

Check it out at http://www.theonion.com/content/whitehousewar.