Whenever the government gets involved in something, you are guaranteed two things will happen. First, the taxpayers will get screwed and the mission will be a failure.

Take biofuels, for instance. Brazil makes ethanol out of sugar cane and it works great. Produces tons of energy. But we don't have a lot of sugar cane in the U.S. We have corn. So the government mandates 7.5 billion gallons a year of E85 must be made and we make it out of corn. Problem is it takes more energy to make E85 out of corn than the resultant gallon of E85 produces. And you can expect your fuel economy to plummet by about 30 percent if you use E85. It has also driven the price of corn sky-high, which not only results in more expensive vegetables, but it drives up the price of feed for livestock, hence beef and other prices are skyrocketing.

The energy bill recently approved by Congress requires the U.S. to increase production of biofuels to 36 billion gallons a year, according to a recent article in the New York Times. All this done in the name of reducing our dependence on foreign oil and reduce global warming—not to mention siphon more money out of the pockets of taxpayers

Now, let's assume for a minute you believe global warming is a bad thing (even though the planet has been warming for thousands of years). Biofuels are good, right? Well, the latest studies have shown that clearing peat bogs and rain forests to plant crops such as soybeans (which some countries are doing to make up for massive drops in U.S. production) are creating more greenhouse gasses than the use of biofuels can save. Countries like Brazil, Columbia and others are chopping down growing swaths of virgin forest to plant crops needed as a result of our government's policies.

Far worse still is that in Mexico they are plowing under agave fields, which is the crop used to make tequila, replacing it with pricier corn. God help us all! Is there no justice?

Where I am sitting used to be under a massive layer of ice, as was much of North America during the Ice Age. When the earth starting warming, the ice went away. I am pretty sure I don't want to go back to that. There are continual swings in the earth's climate and there always have been. Sometimes it's been a lot colder, sometimes it's a lot warmer. The only constant has been the continued folly of government.