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Ethanol Doesn’t Make Sense Economically Or Environmentally, Only Politically
By Mr Ethanol | March 11, 2008
Daily Reckoning:
The dollar is scarcely worth more than a Swiss franc, which makes a visit to Switzerland extremely expensive. Our hotel - Hotel d’Angleterre - overlooks the lake…a beautiful place, clean, well-decorated and efficiently run place - as you’d expect. The price, with discount, was about $600 a night.
“Couldn’t you find anything cheaper?” was asked Elizabeth.
“Well, of course…but I didn’t have time to pay much attention…and besides how often will we come here…how often do we go anywhere?”
We could tell from the tone of her voice that this issue was not worth pursuing. Besides, we are used to being shocked by prices in Europe. We’re shocked so often, in fact, that we’d be shocked if we weren’t shocked. Still, occasionally, we got a major shock in the restaurant. The breakfast buffet was $49; we almost decided we could wait to eat until we got home.
At the table next to us was a group of Americans, a hearty, trim man in his 60’s, with one nice-looking woman in her 40’s…and two young women, obviously his daughters, in their 20’s. They all looked so wholesome, dressed in jeans and sweaters…the girls with blond hair, blue eyes and straight, sharp noses.
In foreign countries, we often imagine that the people near us cannot understand English and speak more freely than we might at home. Usually, this is a mistake. There is always someone nearby who speaks English - practically everywhere, and especially in Geneva. In this case, we understood every word they said.
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