Corn Ethanol: The Fuel to Higher Food Prices »

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A fifth of the US corn crop is now used to brew ethanol for motor fuel, and as farmers have planted more corn, they have cut acreage of other crops, particularly soybeans. End result cooking oil shortage and wheat shortages.

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engineer
April 24, 2008, 6:16 p.m.
This will definitely help raise the price of everything

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  GHOSTWHOWALKS
  April 25, 2008, 1:13 p.m.
  And the shame of it is, it will hurt those who can least afford the products required to live.
  It would seem that there is no bounds to the stupidity of most of those who are supposed to honor their oath, or of your average idiot we send to Congress.
  
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  quackpot
  April 25, 2008, 4:26 p.m.
  but it will make for nice profits for the Ethanol Lobby (AKA Archer Daniels Midland Co.), seed producers (AKA Monsanto) and BIG agribusiness.
  
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    libsRfunny
    April 25, 2008, 4:39 p.m.
    Fan yourself, Quackpot. Yet again we see a rare convergence of agreement among us! lol
    
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      quackpot
      April 25, 2008, 4:48 p.m.
      Cheers!
      
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    mesodude
    April 25, 2008, 6:14 p.m.
    What do you want to bet that Big Oil is at least partly behind this rising drumbeat against ethanol? Suddenly ethanol is destroying the planet! Aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiighh! LOLThere's nothing we can do about this horrible insidious plot (like trim costs elsewhere so we don't end up fighting another multi-trillion dollar war for oil)! Horrors! What would happen if we mandated more aggressive fuel efficiency standards for our cars? Or allowed more Federal government workers to telecommute (so our roads weren't clogged and we weren't burning millions of dollars heating and cooling thousands of office buildings every day)? Or if we made it easier and safer for people to bike to work? Oh gee...What might we do with all the money we save? I wonder...FYI, from what I remember, oil refinery didn't exactly take off overnight either. Why do people expect ethanol to work that way?
    http://science.propeller.com/story/2008/04/25/n...
    
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mntnman444
April 24, 2008, 6:22 p.m.
There is no reason to be using corn for ethanol...HEMP produces 20 times more cellulose than corn and can be used for fuel and food.
Call your congressman and demand that he support the Industrial Hemp Farming Act HR 1009 now stuck in committee because of cowardly leaders.

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jmopinion
April 25, 2008, 2:51 p.m.
We could import sugar cane ethanol from Brazil if the US Govt. would take the huge tax off of it.

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quackpot
April 25, 2008, 4:23 p.m.
Corn Ethanol is just a boondogle produced by agribusiness and the Corn-state Senator/Representatives.
I does nothing but increase profits for a few and generate lots of campaign dollars for the incumbants.

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  libsRfunny
  April 25, 2008, 4:43 p.m.
  If you want to know the worst of it: our tax dollars are subsidizing E85 at the pump. Because our tax dollars are being diverted to artificially lower the price of E85, it almost forces you to use it. We pay for it one way or another.
  First we subsidize farmers/agribusiness. Now we subsidize their friggin' products at the pump. Here in Vegas I see E85 selling for about 20 center per gallon less than regular unleaded. But I bet the per-gallon subsidy is more than that.
  What's next? Subsidizing corn syrup?
  
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    quackpot
    April 25, 2008, 4:56 p.m.
    Yes, corn syrup is heavily subsidized. And what a shame, since it is a large public health problem. The problem is due to the high fructose content and how fructose is metabolized. Fructose in the amounts currently consumed IS a large problem leading to obesity and type II diabetes (References upon request).
    Once again, lRf a point of agreement! Cheers!
    
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    mesodude
    April 25, 2008, 6:17 p.m.
    "What's next? Subsidizing corn syrup?"
    --I really don't think you want to get into a discussion about outrageous energy industry subsidies...
    
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