[Rhodes22-list] Corn - More Politics

[john Belanger]

i agree with this. it seems to make us look extremely decadent to be using food for fuel to power our vehicles. the perception is that the technology is there to make cars more efficient, but we won't do that till gas gets to $_________. good economics, bad politics.
  on a related note, where does the 9/10's of a cent come from? total bs!

Rik Sandberg <sanderico1 at gmail.com> wrote:
  Brad,

Good article, thanks for the link.

I'm with you on this. IF ethanol could be produced reliably from 
something we can grow here besides our food, I would be all for it. It 
just makes NO sense though, to burn up our lunch.

Of course, most of the farmers think this is a great deal (more demand 
AND a subsidy) and I suppose that's what keeps the politicians behind it.

I'm afraid though, that if we are gonna' run the country, or the world, 
on ethanol, we better figure out some ways of having to supply a MUCH 
smaller population. Hmmmm ..... we seem to be headed in the opposite 
direction there. In fact, nobody seems to be talking about this at all. 
All the corn in the world ain't gonna' supply fuel AND lunch. Hell, a 
good share of the world doesn't have enough to eat now.

Rik

"Two things are infinite: The universe and human stupidity; and I'm not
sure about the universe."
- Albert Einstein




Brad Haslett wrote:
> Imagine that, intelligent people have differing opinions on political
> issues! Here is an issue that all the candidates for President agree on (or
> at least mouth support) - King Corn. I'm writing a letter to Fred08 today
> asking him to come clean on the issue before the Iowa caucus. He won't,
> neither will anyone else. Politics does indeed make strange bedfellows.
> Every pol from every party romances this mistress. This article is one of
> the better ones on the subject. Brad
>
> http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv30n3/v30n3-1.pdf
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