The latest Birol interview may have shaken some people up. Plus the big 3 are making huge profits and have money to burn on buyouts. Things could get really heat up.

Also there have been a couple of good articles over at IBD, here's a snippet from a recent one about the ethanol mess:

Also on Tuesday, Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, called on Congress to revisit the ethanol mandate and asked the EPA to exercise its "congressionally given authority to waive all or portions of these food-to-fuel mandates as part of its rule-making process."

"Decades of ill-conceived planning by politicians and bureaucrats afraid of expanding our energy supplies are now bearing an ugly fruit," Inhofe said. "Our current biofuels mandates are having massive and potentially life-threatening consequences.""

-q