[xcamel]

Burn corn, half the 3rd world will starve.
bad, bad choice.

[IronJack]

Burn corn, half the 3rd world will starve.

Boo hoo.

[mylife]

Brazil has a surplus of sugar cane based ethanol, it makes sense to buy that from brazil rather than produce corn based ethanol here which is far more expensive to produce and does effect food prices.

Ethanol is an ok stopgap measure to place a thumb in the eye of chavez and the mullas but it is not the long term solution

[Drammach]

Burn corn, half the 3rd world will starve. bad, bad choice.

Sugar Beets..
Lots & lots of sugar beets..

[ME-262]

"Burn corn, half the 3rd world will starve."

Funny! Half the 3rd world was starving back when gas was 25 cents a gallon and Jack Daniels was the only company making ethanol from corn.

Truth be told, ethanol production goes up every year and not only am I 30 pounds overweight but I'm still gettin' fatter.

In the last 30 years starvation has never been caused by a worldwide shortage of food, only by moral bankruptcy at a national level in the turd-world. We unload the ship full of donated wheat at their port and they load it onto a ship bound for Russia in exchange for Russian weapons. Now with brand new guns and ammo the government can hunt down their enemies and kill them instead of just burning their crops.

By the way... The corn raised for ethanol is not sold as food for humans.

If you're worried about a food shortage, don't stand in the way of progress, shut up and plant a vegetable garden in your yard. If you're too lazy to plant and tend a garden, then just continue buying your food at the store because it will be available since the food shortage is all in your head. Just do us all the favor of keeping your alarmist nonsense to yourself.

I told many a worried person prior to Y2K "Don't be a fu*king idiot!"
I told people starting emu and ostrich farms "Don't be a fu*king idiot!"
I've told people who thought CQI, TQM, ISO, Lean, Six Sigma, or any other flavor of the month program is going to greatly improve their workplace "Don't be a fu*king idiot!"
I tell people who recently worried that the national average price of real estate wasn't based on solid ground "Don't be a fu*king idiot!"
I am currently telling folks who fret over man made climate change, Ozone change, sky falling, and etc. "Don't be a fu*king idiot!"
I am also currently telling my fellow Americans who believe we can appease our way to friendship with violent Muslims who actually hate us for the crusades of circa 1200 AD "Don't be a fu*king idiot!"
And now I've got to add you and your "ethanol will starve the 3rd world" idea to my list of people who I daily must remind "Don't be a fu*king idiot!"

Please tell me this has made a dent in your thick skull and I won't have to go on to detail how our government funds programs to grow prairie weeds, dump milk, store cheese in mines, and etc. to keep the price of food up to no avail since supply far exceeds demand. Please tell me your comment was sarcasm and not rooted in some deep wellspring of ignorance that flows from within you.

[THEUPMAN]

Burn corn, half the 3rd world will starve.
bad, bad choice.


Let em eat the oil.

[Westbrook]

Burn corn, half the 3rd world will starve. bad, bad choice.

But it's THEIR choice, or the choice of their governments, NOT OURS!

We need to become independent of sleezbag dictators and Mohametan death-cult purveyors.

Let them ALL go back to their respective primitive centuries.

Maybe if their people get hungry enough for food, they'll become equally hungry for FREEDOM.

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[LibertarianInExile]

"Burn corn, half the 3rd world will starve. bad, bad choice."

Come again? How will things be any different?

I agree ethanol's as big a waste of our time as hydrogen, but I don't see how this would make poverty in the third world somehow worse. After all, we would immediately be desperate for ethanol production--something that most countries can MAKE, as opposed to oil, which is either there or ain't--and we do tend to PAY for commodities.