Posted on 01/27/2016 6:08:34 AM PST by Kaslin
Banana republic corruption.
No rule of law. Rubber stamp legislature, lawmaking by the judiciary and petty bureaucrats, demagoguery and criminal behavior by the exec branch and (federal) law enforcement agencies.
Payoffs to and from cronies everywhere you turn.
Welcome to 21st century Amerika
I think that just because Iowa is the first state to decide in primaries, and therefore they think they can hold the rest of the nation’s taxpayers hostage over corn subsidies, is very narrow minded and selfish. Kudos to any candidate that stands up for the free market.
Obuma knifed the keystone pipeline, loss of jobs, no oil, no fuel...
Obuma knifed the coal mines in PA, and around, loss of jobs, no fuel...
Obuma knifed the drilling for oil, loss of jobs, no fuel...
Some of the candidates are against ethanol, some are for it, I'm looking at it as a American jobs, resource thing, not a campaign item....
We look at the middle east, Iran just over took Iraq, big oil there, OPEC, Saudi and other countries over there all have oil and lots of it, that means higher prices, we don't have jobs in this country anymore, less money to buy high priced fuel...
Obuma won't drill or frake for oil, so what do we have left?
Corn or wind...wind is dangerous, to expensive and the birds get caught in the blades....so now we come down to corn or ethanol, it runs our cars, isn't as expensive as OPEC oil, can heat our homes if need be, and is an income jobs source...
We right now have how many manufacturing places? We have right now how many jobs from those manufacturing places? We need jobs people, not hamburger flipping jobs, but real jobs...
We used to grow cotton in the southern states, send them north to the manufactures to make textiles, not any more, sent out of the country...we used to have car manufactures that built cars, not anymore, sent out of the country...and the list goes on...
I guess when there isn't any fuel, you can cut a hole in the ceiling of your home for a pipe to let the smoke go out and burn wood, if you can find any trees the government hasn't taken, or you walk to work, the grocery stores won't be an option, to expensive, so if you can find a plot of land that you can claim, grow a garden...maybe there will be a neighbor you can barter with for a couple of gallons of real cows milk, or a chicken for eggs...
Go ahead and knock ethanol...we'll see what happens when you have to walk instead of riding in your car...
There are 16 wind turbines on my family’s ranch. I have NEVER seen a dead bird around any of them.
Good, could you explain first hand about wind turbines and how they work? All we know is what the media tells us...
I’m no fan of the wind farms (sorry about the pun), but I see it as a much better return on our tax money than Solyndra, etc. At least these actually produce a sizeable amount of electricity for our state.
As I understand, farmers have moved from food corn to a breed of corn for Ethanol, resulting in greatly increased prices for food corn due to lower supply and higher demand. If ethanol subsidies were cancelled, farmers would return to food corn, jobs would remain static and supply would increase in the food corn sector.
Uses up good farmland.
Costs more to get it to market in exhaust emitting tanker trucks since it can’t be sent in a pipeline
Where are the enviro-wackos
Ethanol bad, Butanol good.
Don’t like ethanol in my car; hate subsidizing it!
Trump is wrong here.
But then the feds want to control what water you use and how much in your little plot of land. So even growing your own veges on your own land is now regulated. Also bartering is frowned upon by the feds, unless you tell them what you bartered what it is worth and pay taxes.
Bingo, you got it.
Who does?
That’s an amazing claim, and I have to wonder how it’s possible. It seems that it’s quite a common even that birds DO fly into the blades. To say NEVER is amazing!
Commodity corn is animal food. The commodity corn supply and the acres devoted to it have increased to accommodate fuel ethanol demand and commodity corn prices are where they have historically been - around the cost of production. Hybrids for fuel don’t really change the commodity corn market.
The kinds of corn used for immediate human consumption have always been a specialty crop. Big users like Frito-Lay have it grown for them under contract.
I did not say birds never fly into the blades - you are twisting my words. I said none of us have ever found dead or dying birds on the ranch. Maybe because it is more desert-like here & there are fewer birds, I don’t know the reason. But it isn’t an issue here.
Huh? So dead birds by wind turbins wouldn’t necessarily be due to the blades? What am I missing here? But you have NEVER had a dead bird by a blade.
Nevermind, I’m not there so there is no way to prove or disprove your statement. Just seems highly unlikely to a thinking person.
Insult me all you like. It makes no difference to me if you believe me or you don’t.
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