It wasn’t that long ago that if you brought this subject up right here on FreeRepublic, you were shouted down by the pro-Bush/corn ethanol crowd.
The author of the article is blowing it out his arse.
The whole idea of using ethanol as a fuel is flawed. Ethanol has about 34% less energy per volume than gasoline so combining it with gasoline in any proportion results in a mixture with less energy than straight gasoline. Thus gasoline/ethanol blends REDUCE gas mileage. Last year about 40% of the US corn crop was turned into ethanol, yet ethanol provided only a about 10% of US fuel needs so even converting 100% of all the corn grown in the US would not substantially reduce our dependence on oil. Ethanol is a huge boondoggle.
Modern agriculture is the conversion of petroleum into food. This resulted in cheap, abundant food and less starvation.
Modern left-wing ‘green’ fuels, is the opposite. It will make food expensive and scarce and will result in starvation for millions in poor countries.
It’s the New World Order’s (The Evil Empire’s) intent to create famine and death anywhere they can. Burning up the corn is one way.
I really don’t care what a farmer chooses to grow or what he chooses to do with his crop (in a free market).
But I sure as hell hate the facts that:
(1) I am forced to subsidize him with my tax money and;
(2) I am forced to buy the product.