My tagline says it all.
This government is the enemy of common sense - and the enemy of the people.
I still have not eaten any fresh corn year this year. Still waiting for my homegrown to make an appearance.
I’ve noticed more and more companies are returning to using sugar to sweeten their products as opposed to HFCS.
This government is making it all worse. I am almost 100% sure that blackouts will hit Texas next summer because we over-spent to build so many useless windmills.
We just had some visitors from Germany. Their major complaint was the high price of food in this country. For example, in Germany bread is roughly $0.60 per pound,locally the price ranges from $2.50 to $4.00 per pound; cheese, in Germany, sells for about a $1.20 per pound etc. I’m having them send me some market advertising material showing prices of various food stuffs in German markets. Their report fits in with reports on how we Americans are getting “screwed!”
....40 percent of the crop goes to produce 12.6 billion gallons of ethanol to meet the government’s renewable fuel standards. In other words, much crop land is being used to produce ethanol, not to produce food....
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There it is in one sentence. The rest is BS. THIS is what is driving much of the food cost increase across the board. Again, the government shafting the public to play its games of eco-politics.
Stop ruining gasoline, and feed the world.
I don’t see a problem here the environazi plan are working just fine
Drive food prices up...
/ S
I noticed the other day that cereal boxes had gotten smaller.
Another bogus ‘we’re burning our food for fuel’ article? They don’t even try to get their facts straight.
We have been producing #2 yellow dent corn for decades and non of it goes directly for human food.
Unless you consider soda pop food.
We are going retro.
Before the combustion engine, a good deal of cropland went to grow feed for horses, mules, oxesn etc ... for transportation and work.
We are going retro.
Before the combustion engine, a good deal of cropland went to grow feed for horses, mules, oxesn etc ... for transportation and work.
This article is full of errors. It suggests that 40 per cent of the corn crop is diverted into fuel, rather than food.
The truth is very little corn is eaten directly, virtually all the corn is grown as cattle feed. Ethanol production merely turns the starch into fuel. The resulting mash is fed to cattle, same as before!
I bet she was one of those who complained about subsidies, and, paying farmers “not” to grow corn. Well if so, she got her wish. Corn was $2 a bushel in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and ... Well you get the idea.
We are forced to burn corn in our cars.
MPG drop at least 10%.
Corn grower Lobby is smiling.
Yes we are stupid.
Corn Lobby has “corn’ed” us all.
Meanwhile, SSA/ ILWU is protesting a new grain terminal in WA state that is preparing to ship grain to China, and at the same time SSA is fighting to build another grain terminal in WA to ship more grain to China.
Boondoggle!
The first I remember of this type of inflation was in the early 1970’s with Nixon’s “Wage and Price Freeze”.
Quickly, a freeze in Florida caused a spike in oranges and orange byproducts. Others followed suit, including .... gasoline prices by OPEC.
Now, there is no Law of Supply and Demand. It’s skyrocketing prices, at all cost.