The news is not a surprise:
...in 2010, for the first time, farmers actually used more corn for ethanol than they did for animal feed. The difference was small (5 billion bushels for feed, 5.05 billion for ethanol) but the implications may be big. More corn is now being feed to our cars than to our animals.
The Progressives have been anti-life from the very beginning (think Cain, who sought prosperity by eliminating Abel.) Killing Jews, killing Kulaks, killing pre-born babies, it's all the same.
They finally found a strategy (Gaia, the Green Goddess) which worked pretty well, at least for a time. That led to ethanol.
And the starving 3rd world and the increasingly-pressed middle class here? Who cares?
It's logical.
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When corn is used to make ethanol, it's only the starch they use. The rest, called dry distillor grain, goes back into the livestock feed system.
"The Progressives have been anti-life from the very beginning (think Cain, who sought prosperity by eliminating Abel.) Killing Jews, killing Kulaks, killing pre-born babies, it's all the same."
Hahahaha you crack me up dadster. This sounds like something "Ol' Uncle Bill" would say when he gets hammered at the family Christmas.
J: Your Uncle Bill is right.
Otherwise, you'd offer proof that he's wrong.
Anony: what about HUMAN food system?
What about human food system?
Corn ended last year with over 1 million bushals of corn left over after last year. That takes into account all the corn used for livestock feed, ethanol, exported, human food, and used in other products. That is 56 million pounds of corn. When corn was $4 per bushal in 2008, the farmer got 7 cents per pound. Now that it is at $8 per bushal, the farmer gets 14 cents per pound. So look at your 1 lb box of corn flakes, corn only accounts for 7 cents of the rise in the retail price over the last few years.
Besides, farmers are also paid to leave land idle, not growing anything.
So doubling the price of corn is a good thing?
You must be living on another planet.
And yes, we could make a lot of changes in the "Ag" department--beginning with KO'ing corporate tax-shelter farms.
Didn't say that, just making the point that raise in corn prices is a small portion of the overall raise in grocery prices over the last years.
We could also kill the subsidy that the oil companies get for using ethanol as a 10% blend for unleaded gas.
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