On 8/11/2012 02:06, Brent wrote:
> On 2012-08-10, RichA > wrote:
>> It is of no value. It has raised corn prices (and all the myriad
>> foods associated with it) by 100% over 1.5 years. It scours engine
>> components of their protective oil layer. It dries out seals. It
>> should be abolished.
>> P.S. Enviroqueers; Lead by example, STOP DRIVING.
>
> The environment is the excuse. It has nothing to do with
> environmentalists. It has to do with big business and the corn lobby.
>
> Corn ethanol is stupid. Sugar cane ethanol works (energy &
> economically). But here's the problem, can't make sugar cane ethanol in
> the contintal USA because it doesn't grow here. It works nicely for
> Brazil. Could work for Hawaii, but Hawaii being part of the USA is stuck
> with US politics so they import corn ethanol instead of making their own
> locally with sugar cane.
>

Say whaa??? You got that Idea from where?? I personally know three
sugarcane farmers here and there are thousands more. There are sugarcane
plantations all over Louisiana.




>
>> BBC;
>>
>> 10 August 2012 Last updated at 09:26 ET
>> US biofuel production should be suspended, UN says
>>
>> The United Nations (UN) food agency has called on the United States to
>> suspend its production of biofuel ethanol.
>
>> Under US law, 40% of the corn harvest must be used to make biofuel, a
>> quota which the UN says could contribute to a food crisis around the
>> world.
> (sniP)
>
> Same UN that wants to drive down our standard of living via the climate
> change scam.
>
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