Good. End Freeloading Farm Freebies.
Part of the Fundamentals of Government.
If it doesn’t work, subsidize it.
Yeh...I recall the overwhelming press coverage about the food riots in Mexico when because of corn in your tank, they coudn’t afford their fajitas or sumtin down there....Riots for corn prices cuz we use it 4 our cars, and get 20 percent less mpg...
There is plenty of corn to go around. If you stop using it for ethanol, what will you do with the overproduction? This is not the kind of corn people eat, you know. It’s the kind of corn used for corn meal, high-fructose corn syrup (an essential ingredient in soft drinks), animal feed, carpet, shoe polish and other industrial commodities in addition to ethanol.
And you do know that ethanol producers only use the starch portion of the kernel – the rest of the kernel is returned as a concentrated protein feed for livestock. Every bushel of corn used for ethanol already yields both fuel AND food. Distillers grains (the high-protein by-product) is in high demand, especially for cattle feeding. You like beef, you should like ethanol.
It’s been known for a long time that there were better crops to make fuel from than corn. It’s very inefficient, given all the energy that goes into raising maize. But it’s what they grow in the corn belt, so that’s what the government decided to subsidize.
I’ve always thought this was a dumb idea, but if FDR’s guy is against it, I may have to take another look.
every gallon of ethanol,
is two-thirds of a gallon of petroleum,
we don’t need to buy from the middle east.
what about that don’t people get.
People had better educations back then.............
Yep, a waste of good corn liquor.
Burning food is a crime.