To: Red Badger
If we don't have enough corn for food, how are we now suppose to split this limited, non renewing resource between petro and food?
3 posted on
01/19/2007 7:32:19 AM PST by
edcoil
(Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
To: edcoil
Corn (as well as other seed plants) waste, stalks, cobs etc. can be used for both ethanol and biodiesel production......
4 posted on
01/19/2007 7:34:27 AM PST by
Red Badger
(Rachel Carson is responsible for more deaths than Adolf Hitler...............)
To: edcoil
If we don't have enough corn for food, how are we now suppose to split this limited, non renewing resource between petro and food? A system to deal with that problem was set up some centuries ago.
It's called capitalism.
10 posted on
01/19/2007 8:11:43 AM PST by
Balding_Eagle
(If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
To: edcoil
14 posted on
01/19/2007 8:27:37 AM PST by
org.whodat
(Never let the facts get in the way of a good assumption.)
To: edcoil
There are two problems with that line of thinking.
#1, "we" don't own the corn; initially the farmer does and he should be free to sell to whomever he pleases at whatever price the market will bear.
#2, distilling ethanol from corn leaves all nutition intact except for sugar. The very same corn which is used as distillery feedstock can also be used as animal feed.
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