Sanity -> RE: Drill baby, drill? (4/26/2010 7:09:42 PM)
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Its sick and wrong to make fuel out of food when you can simply drill for fuel and while people are going hungry. quote:
Corn Farmers Smile as Ethanol Prices Rise, but Experts on Food Supplies Worry SIOUX CENTER, Iowa, Jan. 11 - Early every winter here, farmers make their best guesses about how much food the world will demand in the coming year, and then decide how many acres of corn to plant, and how many of soybeans. But this year is different. Now it is not just the demand for food that is driving the decision, it is also the demand for ethanol, the fuel that is made from corn. Some states are requiring that ethanol be blended in small amounts with gasoline to comply with anti-pollution laws. High oil prices are dragging corn prices up with them, as the value of ethanol is pushed up by the value of the fuel it replaces. "We're leaning more toward corn," said Garold Den Herder, a farmer who cultivates 2,400 acres in a combination of corn and soybeans and is on the board of directors of the Siouxland Energy and Livestock Cooperative, which opened an ethanol plant here in late 2001. Last year a bushel was selling for about $2 here, but near the plant it was about 10 cents higher. Farmers expect it to go higher soon if oil prices stay high. Ethanol was up to $1.75 a gallon, last year, from just over $1 the year before. The rising corn prices may be good news for farmers, but they are worrying some food planners. "We're putting the supermarket in competition with the corner filling station for the output of the farm," said Lester R. Brown, an agriculture expert in Washington, D.C., and president of the Earth Policy Institute. Farms cannot feed all the world's people and its motor vehicles as well, Mr. Brown said, and the result is that more people will go hungry. Full article here quote:
ORIGINAL: jlf1961 Actually the perfect solution is to do away with fossil fuels completely. Considering that the diesel engine was originally designed to run on vegetable oil....
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