A reader writes in response to Ken Green’s post below.

I was amused by the critique of Robert Zubrin’s article by the very inappropriately named Ken Green. In particular, I don’t understand why European carmakers would need to be “forced” to produce flex-fuel vehicles. If anything, they use American backwardness as a pretext to drag their feet in Europe! Flex fuel is a boon for Europe from all points of view. Europe has little oil and much of that is in places like Chechnya or Dagestan. On the other hand, the EU, for example, has spent the last 25 years trying to reduce food surpluses and a cash crop intended for fuel rather than food would be a boon both to farmers and the taxpayer. Equally, the vast expanses of Russia lend themselves to such production as well and the Russian countryside is still very poor. So flex fuel is a win-win for Europe.There is, of course, a fly in the ointment from Mr Green’s point of view. If the U.S. did not need Middle East oil, it would have no need of a presence or “allies” in the region. At that point, there would be even less justification than now for being hogtied to Israel and, of course, if the U.S. wasn’t hogtied to Israel, there would be no Islamowhatever threat to the U.S.
Poor Mr. Zubrin! He will no doubt be banished to exterior darkness, like others before him who didn’t toe the party line laid down by the trotskyite neocons!