Posted on 01/21/2016 2:17:48 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Food should have kept up with the price of everything else. Corn was $2/bushel in 1950. The prices have been kept artificially depressed by government programs. Gas was what 20 cents a gallon in 1950, how bout corn at $14/Bushel to keep up with gas at $1.40/gallon since farming is a very energy intense operation.
Did you ever hear of modern agricultural technology. Do you know about the impact on corn yield and that some produce corn produces 400 gallons ETOH per acre which consists primarily of CO2 from the air and solar capture by the leaves? After the ETOH is processed you are left with a high protein feed and cornstalks for roughage? Corn grows like bamboo, it is a relative.
I never implied ETOH or gas make engines last longer.
Like you said, you can buy electric, a very popular option in CA, or mass transit, or move out or close to work.
What do you do for work?
Oil has had monstrous subsidies, allowed cheap leases on PUBLIC land, and so goes the list. My point is, there isn’t an industry or business out there that hasn’t received government support. Have you been paying attention to how modern agriculture is constantly demonized. Have you heard of GMOs?
The idea was to reduce oil buying from enemy countries using our dollars to buy terrorists to murder Americans. See how it works?
So the demorats aren’t the enemy. They have convinced you that the republicans are the real and present danger? Wow.
You are aware ETOH blend has been available in the Midwest since the 1970s right? Hitler ran a good portion of his war machine on ETOH. Did you know that?
Subsidies (regardless if ethanol, sugar, milk, etc.) make whores of farmers and the taxpayers the dupes””
As with every industry, including yours. Can you still get on that high horse?
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 was proposed, passed, and signed by Republicans.
That’s simply a fact. Try to wrap your head around it.
The idea was to reduce oil buying from enemy countries using our dollars to buy terrorists to murder Americans. See how it works?
Blah, blah, blah.
It was proposed, passed, and signed by Republicans. You can’t polish a turd by stamping “Republican” on it. See how it works?
Thank you. Where in Article I or in any of the Amendments is Congress authorized to even think about an "energy policy" of any sort?
“”Oil has had monstrous subsidies,””
Well then you should have a monstrous list of them, please provide it.
Ditto!
In a phrase: HELL, YES!
I’m not in the same stream as the SS shills (IE: “I *paid* into”) that exist, even on this site. I, for one, will not indenture our fellow Citizens/progeny for some altruistic fell-good’isms. If that means *I* should ‘suffer’, so be it.
NO subsidies. PERIOD.
It’s NOT govt property (aka $$$) to give, nor do they have the authority to do so; though, those facts haven’t stopped ‘em in the past.
I’m sure *poor* ol’ farmer Ted Turner won’t turn down your charity.
If you don’t know the difference between working taxpayers and welfare slugs you must be from Massachusetts.
You are not forced to buy ETOH, so stop lying about it. You are forced to buy insurance, pay taxes, file tax returns, and pay government rent for property you own. None of us are forced to buy ETOH.
Can we keep it on an adult level?
Leases on PUBLIc lands by the 100s. Check out the North slope of Alaska.
If we can rid the nation of all government checks and subsidies, count me in, but to selectively demonize agriculture as welfare and all the rest as independent businesses, count me out of the BS. For the record, my father never accepted social security until we forced him to at age 78 and he was penalized when he needed some return.
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