[toddlintown]

More here;

http://beerinfood.wordpress.com/2007/06/11/green-movement-might-make-beer-drinkers-blue/

[I still care]

My boys buy all the milk for the family. They drink a lot of it (they’re cereal addicts) and they’ve been really complaining about the cost of it lately.

I just keep telling them, thank the environmentalists.

[TexasCajun]

No Food, eeer No Beer for Fuel!!

[TommyDale]

So the higher price of gas will be still higher, just shifted to another consumer product? Wow, isn’t this just special?

[Philistone]

NOW they’ve done it! Don’t even THINK about touching my beer!

[Sam's Army]

Well, Yeungling could just do like Bud and Miller and just add more water...

[Londo Molari]

This is going to anger “Joe-sixpack”

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Ethanol has also recently been blamed for higher, milk, ice cream and pizza prices.

Also less high-end corn-fed steak.

[flashbunny]

the ethanol apologists will be along soon to tell us that:

- It’s not really ethanol that’s causing this
- you don’t understand what’s going on
- ethanol is a super fuel and anyone who says otherwise is a shill for big oil
- even if ethanol is doing this, it’s better than just giving money to farmers for not farming (which the government is still doing)
- even if ethanol is doing this, it’s better than giving money to those evil A-rabs in the middle east (even though they’re still getting their money because ethanol is at best energy neutral)

You bigots just don’t understand. Bow down to ADM and the ethanol lobby!!!! You’ll pay 200% more for your food and beer and you’ll like it, mister!

[elhombrelibre]

Yuengling is a regional brewery and the oldest brewery in the USA.

I personally think more people should take up home brewing so that they'd understand more about beer, enjoy the fruits of their labors, develop a more discerning palate, and save some money. Try Amarillo or Columbus hops. It's pretty easy to brew beer better than the big breweries who use adjuncts like rice in their beer and dumb down the hops to a nearly nonexistent flavor.

[edcoil]

No civilization in history ever survived by burning its food source.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

It’s not just ethanol. Taxes on beer too from the states and feds.

[Drew68]

I have an idea. Let's end the protection racket for sugar growers (which keep the price of sugar artificially high). Companies can once again use sugar as a sweetener instead of high-fructose corn syrup. This will free up a lot more corn for other uses.

I dunno. I'd rather drink soda sweetened with sugar (as it is in every other country in the world) than HFCS.

[Gabz]

It's also causing a rise in Pizza prices:

Beer budget blown? Blame biofuel

[Gabz]

Ping

[ryan71]

“...beer prices are up about 3 percent across the nation”

Okay, stop the insanity!

Corn is not for cars.

[Redbob]

Alright, dang it all, that does it!

When beer goes up, so does my temper!
Michael Burgess is getting a phone call from me TODAY!

[bert]

An increase in the price or a reduction in beer sold is a good thing.

Beer is amajor source of atmospheric CO2 and is one of the major contributors to the greenhouse phenomenon.

[mylife]

Mmmmmm ..Yuengling

[Malesherbes]

In our wisdom we have now tied the price of corn to the price of energy - and both are going up. ‘Tis the summer of our discontents.