There is about 3% of ethanol use in our gasoline now and the alcoholics want to raise that to 15%. That's five times as much production. Five times the farmers, five times the land, five times the equipment, five times the water, five times the fertilizer. You want to do with the current workforce? Pay overtime? How much will that cost?
They want 10-15% in our fuel, but they expect about half
of that to come from imports and non-corn sources.
We wil lput out about 7 billion gals this year from
1/4 of about 92 million acres, or 23 million.Now if that is up 2.5 times we will do about half the the share
of ethanol needed. So instead of 30 million acres in crappy
Crp and 60 million more unused, totaling 90 million,
about 35 million more of the unused 90 million
will be making corn and still leaves land to increase
other crops. And farmers can do it, as the 35 million
added, is about 10-15 % of farmed acreage. It adds a
third to the corn acreage, but a much smaller
percent to overall farm acreage.And if they are
paid, the 15% extra fertilizer, seed, etc will
be applied.There is no problem to adding that much or
more, and we should add it for all crops so that more
is available for export, giveaway(paid for by
donations from speculators), our supply, as well
as ethanol.Ed