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Comment on Ethanol From Corn Will Double Food Prices by RP McMurphy

RP McMurphy — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 01:17:52 +0000

Do gooders never consider the costs of their actions, only the benefits. Be prepared for the angry reactions you will get since you have officially outed as folly a treasured cause of the left.

Comment on Ethanol From Corn Will Double Food Prices by GOPneedsarealconservative

GOPneedsarealconservative — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 01:17:52 +0000

Yeah, but the intentions were noble. In their world, that is all that matters.

The reality is corn is the base to our economy. The price has gone up due to ethanol mandated use. The massive cost increase in corn affects beef and poultry.

Then as farmers move to corn, they stop growing other crops. And we have it all food prices skyrocket.

Comment on Ethanol From Corn Will Double Food Prices by Nick F

Nick F — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 01:17:52 +0000

eliminate corn subsidies

Comment on Ethanol From Corn Will Double Food Prices by Laissez-Faire Guy

Laissez-Faire Guy — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 01:17:52 +0000

This surprises you? This is typical gov’t in action. These are the same sort of idiots that mandated MTBE as a gas additive out here in California, and had it poison a bunch of our water supplies.

If the gov’t wants to get into the incentive business, give rewards to any solution that reduces petroleum usage, and not cherry pick those from your corn growing special interests.

Comment on Ethanol From Corn Will Double Food Prices by phonydem

phonydem — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 01:17:51 +0000

actually, here in corn country…the government is already experimenting with other crops to see if they can produce ethanol here cheaply…they are using crops that we dont eat, so that there is no problem with demand…be patient…youre not the first one to see the problem…its already being taken care of…

Comment on What would you pay to a "Green Collar" Job? by whcwarrior_10

whcwarrior_10 — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 22:30:35 +0000

Other than the public transit jobs, all of these are minimum wage jobs. Another fine solution for poverty brought to you by the liberal green agenda…

Comment on Why do people believe the neocons are against the global warming? by Fritz K

Fritz K — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 00:53:30 +0000

Ethanol is a scam, because it doesn’t solve any problems. You can’t use ‘food’ for ‘fuel’. As it is, you can only use soil so many times before it is useless. So aside from reusing valuable land, valuable soil, displacing trees and so on, you’re also adding to the amount of toxic fertilizer gets added to the environment and all that is inolved, from farming, processing, transporting, refining, etc… ulitmately uses nearly as much energy from fossil fuels as does the gasoline from fossil fuels which ethanol replaces… So in the end, it does nothing but waste food, farmland, soil, etc.

hybrid, hydrogen electric is the way to go, technology is already here, ethonol was a mistake and if we’re not careful, we’ll allow for companies take a runaway lead, converting crops to ethnolol and diminish interest in hybrids as a better solution.

Whatever happens… fuel stations will remain a part of the plan.

Comment on Why do people believe the neocons are against the global warming? by bob326

bob326 — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 00:53:30 +0000

I love this, I love it. Trying to pull down conservatives with you, eh? Ridiculous.

You want to know why Bush eventually pushed for ethanol? Because the environmentalists and liberals demanded it. Plain and simple, if there was not demand for it, Bush would not have signed on board.

And regarding big business making money off of ethanol: how do you think that the United States is going to transition off of oil? It isn’t going to be some grassroots movement, it isn’t going to be mom and pop general stores, no, it is going to be big business.

And isn’t that what the liberals have been spouting as the "benefits" of acting on global warming? That businesses would make more money?

Comment on Why do people believe the neocons are against the global warming? by turingschild

turingschild — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 00:53:30 +0000

It’s easy to blame neocons for everything. In fact, it’s the old time financial Conservatives we need to watch out for.

Corn growers are NOT taking food out of the mouths of the poor.

http://www.hanskaco.com/index.aspx?ascxid=fpQfStory&fpsid=32480&fpstid=1

Dramatically rising international corn prices have led to expensive tortillas.

http://www.ilfb.org/viewdocument.asp?did=15077&r=0.9783136

But who is profiting from these speculatory price rises? With all the noise the Media is making trying to blame U.S. farmers, maybe we should look at the owners of the media and their financial buddies. As usual, the real cause of financial strain can be traced to our ‘overlords’ in the financial district. They think they own us. And so long as we do nothing to disabuse them of the notion, they’re RIGHT.

Comment on Why do people believe the neocons are against the global warming? by Love of Truth

Love of Truth — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 00:53:30 +0000

I totally agree with you. Bless your heart for exposing this complete neo-con scam. It is oil with a green face on it. If they were really serious about bio fuels they would not use our food sources. Corn already gets the most subsidies than any other crop, is less efficient than even sugar by almost a factor off three.

And the industry makes tons of money to boot. The average farmer is making over 77,000 a year and that is not even factoring in the seed companies where the real motive and profits are. They are getting even more sickeningly rich off the tax payers backs.

The solution in terms of bio-fuel is to stop subsidizing an already wildly profitable industry that causes poverty and starvation in other countries.

We need to switch to switch grass, some wood chips, and Jatropha which can be grown in arid regions and can reap over 40% of its fruit in oil.

I think our motto needs to be "get corporations and other big businesses off of welfare".

Great great question. You get a star * : )