go to bed hungry, more often than you'd think. There are many living in poverty, particularly seniors, vets, and the disabled, who struggle to afford the care they need/housing/ and food on a daily basis; people who for one reason or another either can't or don't get further assistance than their pensions. Those fixed incomes will only stretch SO far, and with the continually rising costs against that, they are truly struggling with hunger often. sandraleesmith46 What you say is true, as far as it goes, BUT you didn't mention how farmers used to band together and SHARE their equipment to harvest each others' crops, OR how the government has been MANIPULATING all those factors, except the weather, for DECADES! My grandfather was a farmer all his life, and I saw many of those things happening first hand as a child, back in the '50s; things I KNOW have only gotten WORSE over the decades SINCE then. Especially the government manipulation of crops and what's allowed to be planted or accepted by the markets! By sharing the equipment and helping each other, the costs of the necessary machinery was spread out among the group, not falling on each one completely! Also, crop rotation is healthier for the land; and growing the SAME crop year after year just "uses up" the land so eventually it won't support ANYTHING! sandraleesmith46 Methanol IS alcohol; any chemical ending in "-ol" IS an alcohol, that's basic chemistry! Methanol is in fact the SIMPLEST alcohol, chemically