“The United States produces a great deal of food each year. Actually, it overproduces food. This is the result of federal farm policies that pay farmers by the amount of crop they produce each year.”
Gee I keep on hearing from the anti ethanol nuts that if we switch from a percentage of food crops to growing crops for ethanol production....we’re all gonna staaaaarrrvvveeee and
Corn will be $3000.00 a bushel.
Ok. I will come out and say it. Wolfowitz is an idiot. On Iraq and everything else.
Don’t think that a thriving agriculture community is important to national security? Just ask the Soviets.
Think cheap corn is starving the world? Just ask anyone in the Breadbasket of Africa, Zimbabwe.
This is just more of the same from those who have sent our major industries offshore & driven up consumer prices here.
Seesh, what a lie.
The government programs pay farmers NOT to grow crops.
I know, I've read it on FR a thousand times.