Ethanol a full tank of gas but no food on the table
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Just in case you have been living under a rock and have not heard it has been a bad year for corn. Corn likes water not too much and not too little. In my part of the country here in South Carolina we have had hardly any water. Well at least not in Ware Shoals. This is the second year without much summer rain. We seem to have GREAT springs but not much rain in the summer.
So farmers around here cant raise the needed corn for their own cows let alone to sell for food for people and other cows.
For years now our dumb government has PAID farmers to NOT plant land. I mean come on why let the market control prices of corn….
This year the west has had tooo much rain which has flooded and killed a lot of corn. The south has not had enough rain and so we wont have much corn to go around.
Guess whats still going on?
We are STILL turning what little corn we have left into ethanol. Studied have shown after transportation ethanol from corn nets like 2% energy. Eating that same corn nets a whole lot more energy.
Ethanol from corn is a bunch of junk. Plus ethanol nets less energy per gallon than gas so your E85 for 20 cents or so cheaper per gallon would have to be 1.00 cheaper per gallon to break even on Miles per gallon of the same gallon of Gas.
Its time America says no to junk like this. You have these people saying it helps curb Americas use of foreign oil. Ethanol is so small compared to gas usage in this country saying that is not a good argument. Especially when its coming from corn which nets so little energy and is needed for so much other stuff.
How do you like paying more for cereal,flour,bread and the many other products that use WHEAT,CORN,BARLEY and SOYBEANS?
What happens when farmers can plant corn and turn it into ethanol and make more profit than they would if they planted wheat for flour? They go plant corn. This causes a shortage of wheat and causes price to skyrocket. This is just whats happening in mass. More and more land is being planted for corn and less for other things. Its big and I encourage you to do some research on it.
In short, what do you want a tank full of ethanol or food to live on? If corn is scarce how come ethanol plants are still making ethanol when we dont have enough this year? Think about it.
June 29th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
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June 30th, 2008 at 11:25 am
Wow it’s amazing the waste our political system with work so hard to do. We caould all be much greener in life from bottom to top in America. This is so sad thanks for putting it up.
June 30th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
These are very good questions that are raised as our nation looks for alternatives to foreign oil. It is certainly not as simple as just turning corn into fuel.
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:11 am
I must be living under a rock because I am totally unaware of the current ‘corn season’
July 9th, 2008 at 9:53 am
The government won’t let us grow hemp (not the kind you smoke silly!) which will grow on poorer land and produce pulp for paper, to save the forests, and bio-diesel, for the nicest smelling exhaust on earth, from the same poor fields every year! the Status quo stands, even though we starve, corn is priced off the market and the forests are decimated. Somehow Washington D.C. is so far away from the U.S.A. that only the business lobbiests count for anything - a deplorable state of affairs for Democracy and possibly the Achilles heel it will never overcome! Time to try a new form of social democracy maybe?
July 10th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
corn is fairly un-nutritious and doesn’t digest properly, please grow us other crops.