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To: Bodhi1

“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.


2 posted on 12/06/2007 5:03:01 AM PST by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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To: taxed2death

The farm bill is a consumer subsidy. Who benefits from the increased production and lower prices.


7 posted on 12/06/2007 9:04:26 AM PST by clodkicker
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