The Dakotans need to stop confusing governance with tyranny.
Deathanol - you heard it here first...
...Will make everyone feel good by doing their part via less food and a major increase in the cost of it.
We deserve it with our determination to save AlGores legacy and the planet./s
My guess is that any biofuel derived from food crops will be demonized by the watermelons, very soon after all the laws mandating its use have been passed.
That way, people can easily be vilified, for driving a car & burning up someone else’s food.
Some very important points a lot of folks are missing;
Most any alternative to Muslim produced petroleum and the financing of our enemy’s terrorism is worth doing for national security interests alone. Add in to keep the money in the American economy instead of shipping it by the boat load to our enemies and yes it is well worth going thru some growing pains to achieve energy independence.
All hit pieces on ethanol I have ever read ignore a basic fact of ethanol, distilling the ethanol our of corn leaves the corn behind as a high value by product called brewer’s grain.
If the story ignores the brewer’s grains you know right off it is a hit piece on ethanol and short on facts.
This brewers grain can and is being made into hundreds of food and industrial products.
Yes you can make taco shells out of brewers grain, and cow feed and dog feed and breakfast cereals and many industrial chemicals. Brewer’s grain comes wet instead of dry so they have to change the recipes and maybe some of the machinery to utilize it.
Tiny Eddyville Iowa has a 1.5 billion dollar, 1,600 acre, corn processing complex that passes the corn from independent plant to independent plant by augers and pipeline until the corn is consumed, each company drawing off the parts of the corn kernel that they want to utilize.
Indian Hills Community College works closely with the companys and trains people to work there.
The concept that the latest raise in corn prices would not have happened but for ethanol is false. Corn adjusts upward every few years to catch up with inflation just like everything else does. One year it was a big order from China that spiked corn prices and raised corn growing land values all over the Midwest. Other times drouth and crop failures have occured. Yes people have a fit then too and congress usually gets in an uproar over it.
We were due for an adjustment and if not ethanol, something else would have bumped prices.
Good points about the other sources of energy; in fact hundreds of sources of energy are being researched and developed right now. Green algae fed with carbon dioxide emissions from coal power plants is showing promise. They say it is 50 percent oil.
Iowa now has 3 busy manufacturing plants making windmill generator components.
larry
The STUPID Ethanol Mandate will just raise the price of booze! Not to mention food.....