Posted on 03/09/2014 6:28:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
No doubt it was private companies exporting the ethanol.
Do you have no problems with this exporting ethanol?
My problems are that these “private companies” are receiving significant US gubmit subsidies to make and sell the inefficient corn ethanol and its in no one’s best interest, except those private companies, to use an important food crop to make an unneeded and inefficient fuel.
I know exactly what you're saying.
My daughter worked at a wildlife rehab center. We tried to get one of the local grocery stores to donate their past prime produce, etc. to feed the critters. Stuff destined for the garbage.
Nope. Can't handle the possible legal ramifications.
The problem isn’t the private companies exploitation of US Government tax code or regulations, the problem is with the governments’ establishment of those policies. Even you recognized those as distinct problems.
I have no problem with the exports.
“There would be a lot less waste if the Luddites did not block food irradiation.”
Worth repeating.
In my early 20s, I saw a “will work for food” guy on the corner. Since I had packed my lunch, I stopped and he saw me getting something. He came up expecting money, I gave him a PBJ sandwich. He threw it on the ground.
A few weeks later, I gave one a can of soup, and he dented my car throwing it back at me.
That’s when I realized that many of the beggars were frauds.
You can usually tell what they need and it is a drink or a fix. I am only tempted to give them something if they have a dog or they are missing a limb.
Twice I gave people food, one was a street bum. He grinned and thanked me and stuffed the sandwich into his mouth. The other time he was a wetback making his way through the south Texas brush. I gave him a bag of cookies and a bottle of water and he dropped down on his knees, made the sign of the cross and thanked me.
I saw a young woman yesterday with a sign that just said HUNGRY. Speaking as a mother and grandmother, it broke my heart to think about the road she was going down.
They aren't all frauds.
“I ran across one of those ‘will work for food/want a job’ guys in Colorado, many years ago, who was hitchhiking west and looking for work. I shared my lunch with him, and when I saw the way he ate the sandwich, I left him with some money for the trip (I was headed in the other direction).
They aren’t all frauds.”
At our last Neighborhood watch meeting, the local constable talked to us about how most of these dudes in the Houston area are sent down from the north and are put on the corners by organized crime.
The Gubmit didn’t just “happen” to have these ethanol subsidies, the Corn Growers lobby talked them into it. It mandates that a certain quantity of ethanol must be made from corn “to buck up our dwindling domestic oil”.
To have no problem with this grafty situation, you must feel, or have, some investment in it.
Of course they didn’t just ‘happen’ to have those subsidies, they were lobbied for. Primarily by the environazi’s, but also by the corn lobby, otherwise we would still be using MTBE.
Do you use the deductions available to you when you file taxes? Homeowners for example?
As to your last question, I retired from farming almost 30 years ago.
That’s easy to say if you live in a city with a grocery store on every corner. It’s not so easy when you have to decide if it’s worth putting up with empty shelves or driving an hour for the next “better” grocery trip.
Would you share the process of your soapmaking and any extra tips you’ve learned along the way in making it, please? Thanks.
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