I own a small aerospace company that does some business with the U.S. government.

The No. 1 purpose of the federal government is national defense.

People make their own fates, and if enough of us make our fate to be space explorers, perhaps we can actually get some space exploration done.

In addition to virtually banning methanol outright, the EPA has created regulations to prevent cars from being modified by small businesses to optimize their performance, including through the use of methanol.

When the government mandates that everyone must buy a product, its sellers can, and will, increase its price, potentially without limit.

If the auto companies were free agents, they would act to break the fuel monopoly that is so damaging to their own interests and those of their customers. But they are not, and so they won't.