PINT OF BEER COULD HIT £4 NEXT YEAR (Because of alternate energy)

(UK) Daily Express ^ | December 24, 2007

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[Libloather]

PINT OF BEER COULD HIT £4 NEXT YEAR (Because of alternate energy)

Bad news. The good news? The energy to get rid of it won't change!

[knews_hound]

I brew 10 Gallons for 40 bucks.

Even Mega Mart swill costs more than that.

It IS less expensive.

Cheers,

knewshound

[sushiman]

First time I went to England in the summer of 76 , a pint was 47p !

[GOP_Raider]

Hey, before I get back to work, I wanted to wish everyone on the FR Beer Ping List a very safe and Merry Christmas tomorrow. And remember: be nice to bartenders. Even if they serve you beer that's too warm. :) Anyway, be safe tomorrow, everyone.

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Don’t know what it means but bump!

[MarkL]

The price of food here is going to go through the roof in short order, and that is the way that it is with supply and demand.

No kidding... Have you priced milk and eggs recently? And as more and more farmland that was being used to grow food and livestock feed crops are switched over to growing crops for fuel, and as they're sent into the pipeline (literally) for fuel, the price of food will continue to rise, as will taxes for the subsidies.

Can someone please explain the insanity of growing crops for fuel, rather than food, and then having the taxpayers subsidise it... In effect, raising both the cost of food, plus taxes in order to make less food available?

Mark

[MarkL]

Further, non-food crops will end up making biofuels - they are more efficient (e.g. switchgrass).

I would LOVE to see this, but I don't think that it's going to happen. There's too much political capital invested in corn and ethanol production. Switchgrass converts quite nicely to butanol, which is far better at producing energy in internal combustion engines that ethanol, but ADM and the farm lobby doesn't really seem to be interested.

Mark

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