Posted on 06/14/2007 7:08:30 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
There is a website devoted to this issue, sponsored in part by the American Meat Industry. I read an article but they didn’t give the name of the web site but believe it’s for consumers and businesses. Does anyone have the name?
Cellulosic ethanol is another possibility that’s being researched.
No one is going to like this, but my sense is that we have to use incentives (e.g. tax policy) to encourage capital investment in the US. For instance, changing a) depreciation lives and b) taxes on profits, provide more economic reasons for companies to improve their capital plant. Reducing the burden of regulations should also be on the table. What companies have to do to build the most basic products here in the US is insane. High energy prices are here to stay and we need to respond intelligently.
Starvation is good for the planet. It keeps the population down (the global climate change crowd of today is the global climate change crowd the 1970s is the ZPG - Zero Population Growth crowd of the 1970s is the pro-abortion anti-DDT crowd of the 1960s).
Death is good business for them.
And we have a policy now to accept refuges from these poorer nations where people might starve so we do have a generous side. And while they have few marketable skills (and thus work in “unskilled labor”), we do have an expanding social safety net ready to catch them.
Of course they could grow the food they need back home and thrive but liberal do-gooders want that food for fuel.
Thanks for the post.
We can always go to “soilent green” when food becomes scarce. /sarc
Oops. Should be “Soylent Green.”
Bad legislation is never repealed, and any new legislation with the word "reform" in its title means just the opposite.
Now, with the price of corn rising due to its use as fuel (ethanol), the more expensive Mexican corn can probably be easily marketed.
Time for the Mexican corn farmers to return home to raise corn to feed their kids.
See, everything becomes quite a bit simpler when you close the loops.
Don’t burn your food for fuel...............
Bullcrap...........If ethanol makes the big time based on corn, scientists will figure a way to make corn produce a dozen ears per stalk instead of 1 or 2 like now.
The only thing is that within 15 years, the very idea of growing corn/sugar cane/sugar beets for ethanol will be obselete. That’s because by then we’ll be growing oil-laden algae on a huge scale in special tanks to make biodiesel fuel/heating oil, and the “waste” from that processing can be processed into ethanol rather easily. Also, by then new enzymes will be widely available to break down cellulose into ethanol, which means plentiful plant waste can be used for this purpose.
Oh shut up! It's more fun to whine and moan.
Meanwhile, the largest corn crop in more than 2000 years is growing in the Midwest as we speak.
Oil is only as dangerous for the world as the controversial subject of “fire” was for the ancient Greeks. Fortunately for Western thought and the rest of the world, the Greeks learned that fire was at most a two-edged sword chaotic in the wild but could be mastered. The responsibility lays in the hands of those who wield it and must tame it. Ignoring fire (for example preparing against lightning strikes) was inexcusable neglect. Oil is no different a subject. Neglecting the build up of me thanes and tar pits are as deadly as pollution (and we still have to control burn forestry as protection from lightning strikes).
All other energy fuels share the same “controversy”. It’s the devil’s influence to not want mankind to stay warm or cook his food or power his industry. Let’s expand this maddening absurdity to expose it’s ill-conceived logic:
The use of so-called “clean” energy like “wind” is bad for the environment. All wind deflected to produce energy to be used by that hideous creature, Jewish Christian God-centered “man” plague upon this planet, means that pollen won’t have enough wind to detach it from the beautiful (real meaning of life) flowers. Thousands, millions, billions of flowers will DIE because the eff’n mankind wind machine is taking away the natural resources that keeps this world beautiful. Just like solar energy being so key to keep the surface of the earth hot enough to reproduce the winds and ocean currents. When solar energy is absorbed away from heating the oceans...what a catastrophe!!! The eff’n world will eff’n end because of the eff’n mankind is trying to better his condition not only for himself, but for his eff’n offspring #*$&&*# !!!!!!
Their tortilla price problem went away when the two makers of tortillas that together control 70% of the market decided they did not like the government attention they got. Then prices mysteriously fell.
Frankly, food based fuels...all of them...are one of the top 5 stupid ideas I’ve ever heard of.
Every field I see here in Anson co of NC is in corn too. Makes me wish I were still able to coon hunt, used to have a lot of fun chasing them outa corn fields.
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