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Post by Big on Mar 30, 2007 14:29:55 GMT -5
Ethanol requires corn. People eat corn and corn grows on fields. Planting more corn for Ethanol will make it more expensive, making all food products that include corn more expensive and will detract American farmers from growing other products. Seems like a disaster in the making.
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Post by bonniej2 on Mar 30, 2007 14:42:30 GMT -5
 Sorry, Big. I know you're right. Just trying hard to have a glass-is-half-full kind of a day. |
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Post by matclone on Mar 30, 2007 14:55:02 GMT -5
Why would planting more corn (a greater supply) make it more expensive?
All things being equal, I'd rather get fuel from plants than digging under the Earth for it.
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Post by Big on Mar 30, 2007 14:59:33 GMT -5
Because there is virtually a limitless demand for it when corn is used for fuel.
Corn is already twice as expensive this year as it was last year as per CNN.
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Post by Big on Mar 30, 2007 15:02:50 GMT -5
bonnie,
Its like you said before, I am usually positive until I read the newspaper and watch the news.
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Post by matclone on Mar 30, 2007 15:08:41 GMT -5
Ah, a greater demand--something capitalists everywhere endeavor to create.
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Post by bonniej2 on Mar 30, 2007 15:47:17 GMT -5
bonnie, Its like you said before, I am usually positive until I read the newspaper and watch the news. I'm usually positive until I shatter my laptop screen, so I'm having to make a special effort today. Sucks. |
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Post by sl on Mar 30, 2007 16:51:17 GMT -5
I know the topic is ethanol, but the idea of using fuel is not entirely bad. I have heard that left-over sugar cane is used in Brazil and that left-over orange pulp alone could run florida...also most of the corn used receives so much highway exhaust that it is not suitable for human consumption. Unless of course they mix it into the good corn which is commonly done...
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Post by Flop the Nuts on Mar 30, 2007 17:06:43 GMT -5
Ethanol requires corn. People eat corn and corn grows on fields. Planting more corn for Ethanol will make it more expensive, making all food products that include corn more expensive and will detract American farmers from growing other products. Seems like a disaster in the making. I'm not an advocate of ethanol, but what's your solution to the energy problem? Most people who rail against "big oil", ethanol, nuclear, etc... present no realistic alternative, so they provide no useful input to the debate. If all of the people who attend the anti-oil rallies would move out of the cities and move back to somewhere where they could live off of the land and decrease their carbon footprint, they would be doing a lot more to help the situation. At least they wouldn't be hypocrites. FWIW, I believe nuclear fuel to be the answer to most of our energy problems. |
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Post by Big on Mar 30, 2007 17:26:27 GMT -5
FWIW, I believe nuclear fuel to be the answer to most of our energy problems.See, you have something in common with Iran 
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Post by Flop the Nuts on Mar 30, 2007 17:42:10 GMT -5
FWIW, I believe nuclear fuel to be the answer to most of our energy problems.See, you have something in common with Iran Good point. |
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Post by oc on Apr 1, 2007 13:46:56 GMT -5
Here's a good web site with lot's of info regarding "alternative" energy: www.energyadvocate.com/Solar won't do it, wind won't do it, as Big says, nuke is the answer. |
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