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Ethanol And Hunger
Investors Business Daily (IBD) ^ | April 11, 2008 | Staff

Posted on 04/11/2008 9:51:22 PM PDT by La Enchiladita

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To: Dan Evans

I noticed that my VW GTI’s highway gas mileage dropped from roughly 31-32 mpg to 27-28 mpg when ethanol was introduced.

Roughly a 4 mpg dropped in efficiency. But then, it has a turbo-charger, so possibly the fact that ethanol burns cooler is having a beneficial side effect somewhere.


181 posted on 04/26/2008 12:49:14 AM PDT by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: hubel458
So world wheat production is a responsibility of US farmers(Overall food volume has went up to feed the world).

Are you telling us that US farmers don't want to sell more food, thus making more money?

182 posted on 04/26/2008 12:53:05 AM PDT by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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So, you're saying that it's the government that forces the poor farmer to produce a surplus?

Yeah, I wasn't very clear about that. The Farm Programs are designed in such a way that the farmer, whose natural desire is to produce as large a crop as he can from his farm, will produce more than the US consumer will need.

That happens through several different types of production incentives, such as price floors, storage payments, and extra money if the crop is sold at a certain time during the year. But all this isn't available if the farmer doesn't abide by other restrictions, such as a certain maximum acreage for some crops, or a specified ratio of corn/beans etc.

That normally, the farmer would just plow enough land to feed himself and his family?

I don't know what you mean by 'normally'? Since the 50's we've had huge surpluses. Not sure if that helps.

See my tagline.

183 posted on 04/26/2008 7:46:25 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (OVERPRODUCTION......... one of the top five worries for American farmers.)
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To: Balding_Eagle

I would think that if there is too much food to sell in the states, the rest would be sold overseas.

That, and I was under the impression that the Federal Government stepped in with agriculture to limit production, as farmers tended to naturally overproduce - which then led to prices being too low for farmers to survive.


184 posted on 04/26/2008 10:03:31 PM PDT by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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