Switch To Corn For Ethanol Could Affect Drink Prices

Newhouse News ^ | 7/10/2007 | Stephen Koff

[Incorrigible]

 

STOP THE MADNESS!

 

[TexasCajun]

Poor African women and children hurt worst.

No Food For Fuel!!

[IncPen]

I’m all for ecology and all that, but when they start messing with the beer supply....

[Jeff Chandler]

Haven’t I been warning everyone about this?!!!

[P-40]

Maybe using alcohol to fuel cars will raise drink prices enough so the drunks will only be able to afford to walk to the bars. Best of both worlds.

[Calpernia]

This wouldn’t be an issue if farming was embraced. We have lots of farmland being loss to development and regulations

[Philistone]

No problem there. Now when they start making ethonal out of hops and barley, I’m gonna get PO’d...

[VocalObserver]

Increased prices of tortillas and now tequila...

[RKV]

[CholeraJoe]

and American beer could follow if barley production keeps declining here.

Unless of course one is used to the Anheuser-Busch swill which is made almost entirely from rice.

[AbeKrieger]

Perhaps we can reclaim some of our government mandated affordable housing (i.e. guaranteed gub’mint ghetto) tracts as farmland, now that it makes economic sense.

[Red_Devil 232]

I read a thread on here yesterday ... beer was the catalyst to human civilization ...

I tried to find the thread but have failed ... maybe it was an illusion ... ?

[KarlInOhio]

But domestic brewers so far have avoided big price hikes.

Probably because the biggest part of the price of Bud is TV advertising, and that price is dropping. They sure aren't spending it on ingredients or breewing.

[KarlInOhio]

What the heck is breewing? Maybe I was mixing up brewing and peeing like Anheuser-Busch does.

[Shots]

“STOP THE MADNESS!”

Yup nothing but hype to get the futures prices to rise since most of the crops have just been plated with some exceptions like in the Far Northern states ND MN which I think just started.

[Red Badger]

Beef, chicken, pork, lamb, leather goods, and anythis associated, i.e. milk and eggs will ALL GO UP!.....STOP BURNING THE FOOD SUPPLY!..............

[massgopguy]

70% of their budget is advertising.

[Shots]

plated=planted

duh

[Yak]

Efficiencies in the brewing industry could help stave off dramatic price hikes domestically, since "they can brew more beer today with less barley,''
As one who appreciates a rich glass of beer and knows something about brewing (from homebrewing), the thought of more breweries brewing w/ less barley is not a good thing. You can keep your swill brewed w/ corn, rice and other adjuncts, but give me 100% barley beer any day.

[Red Badger]

Not only alcoholic products, but meats and poultry, eggs and milk, butter, cooking oils, and anything else associated with corn is going up at a much higher rate than “normal”.....