My hope and intention as I begin this blog is to give a thoughtful, considered response to world events, deep discussions and personal circumstances. I hope it will be encouraging, challenging, informative and edifying to those that read it. I by no means intend to be a self-proclaimed expert, but I do want to share my thoughts in the global marketplace of ideas.
"But the rise in prices is also the self-inflicted result of America's reckless ethanol subsidies. This year biofuels will take a third of America's (record) maize harvest. That affects food markets directly: fill up an SUV's fuel tank with ethanol and you have used enough maize to feed a person for a year. And it affects them indirectly, as farmers switch to maize from other crops. The 30m tonnes of extra maize going to ethanol this year amounts to half the fall in the world's overall grain stocks."
Duh! I've been saying that from the beginning! Biofuels are not renewable, and mess with things. It doesn't make any damn sense to pay less for something you WANT like gas but pay more for something you NEED, like food! We have everything backwards here...
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Is there a Readers Digest version of this? This article is yucky and painful to read.
"But the rise in prices is also the self-inflicted result of America's reckless ethanol subsidies. This year biofuels will take a third of America's (record) maize harvest. That affects food markets directly: fill up an SUV's fuel tank with ethanol and you have used enough maize to feed a person for a year. And it affects them indirectly, as farmers switch to maize from other crops. The 30m tonnes of extra maize going to ethanol this year amounts to half the fall in the world's overall grain stocks."
Duh! I've been saying that from the beginning! Biofuels are not renewable, and mess with things. It doesn't make any damn sense to pay less for something you WANT like gas but pay more for something you NEED, like food! We have everything backwards here...
Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology for the win!
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