Reader Responses

It's amazing. Congressional Democrats and Republicans are wringing their hands over the desperate need for alternative fuels.

South Africa - not listed among the great economic powers of the world - has developed an alternative fuel to power airplanes. Re: Tyler Paper, Aug. 16, P. 5B. There is a huge supply of sugar in the United States, Brazil, Africa, India and China. Yet the United States insists on using corn to make ethanol instead of sugar.

Last spring, President Bush visited Brazil and praised Brazil for being energy dependent through the use of sugar ethanol and developing two new huge offshore oil discoveries.

The U.S. government refuses to use sugar ethanol or our own oil deposits. We now progress to sackcloth and ashes.

Gilbert Barton
Chandler