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To: Lorianne

Let’s make fuel from food. What could possibly go wrong?


4 posted on 07/23/2017 9:27:55 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Rurudyne

The genuinely idiotic thing is that in order to produce enough of a corn yield to make it worthwhile, lots of not very environmentally freindly fertilizers and pesticides are used. Just guess what the feedstock is for the production of those fertilizers and pesticides. Clue: It begins with an “O”.


5 posted on 07/23/2017 9:31:32 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day")
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To: Rurudyne

Let’s make fuel from food. What could possibly go wrong?

the FR ethanol mafia usually chimes in with the straw argument that fuel corn isn't edible corn, as if the farmers don't know what they're planting.


20 posted on 07/24/2017 12:25:35 AM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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