Posted on 04/18/2008 3:51:36 PM PDT by PROCON
Corn 50c an ear at Safeway. On Sale!
Ahem. I believe this really is Bush’s fault. Time to stop this nonsense now, no mater who started it. End the Ethanol programs immediately!
The foresight exercised with respect to this ethanol debacle reminds one of the foresight exercised with respect to the aftermath of the Iraq invasion: in both cases, bupkis.
“Enraged citizens in Egypt and Pakistan — potential Muslim powder kegs — “
At least it’s not all bad news. ;>)
Mmmm . . . dirt cookies. Have some before your dirt nap.
Ted Turner was right. Cannibalism is right around the corner.On a brighter note less demand for fossil fuel will result in lower prices for us. ;-)
Fortunate that the price of fuel and fertilizer, and land have nothing to do with food prices.
Yeah! Bush didn't allow drilling in our reserve pools, didn't allow building new refineries,didn't kick the left wing lib weenies out of congress 'cause they wouldn't either. /sarc Blame yourself if you have for one minute accepted the "Globull Warming" premise and the other hoopla that is driving this madness.
Many here believed that this alcohol to fuel nonsense was good and would not raise food prices at all, even after I showed how to pick up some money trading futures.
Granted, the buy in for this market is high but there was money to be made going long on futures and LEAP options.
All of this is just MO and your mileage may vary.
"It's a madhouse! A MADHOUSE!!!"
Al Gore invented the Global Food Riot.
How freakin’ crazy are we!! When push comes to shove...really, really, that shove; we hold the upper hand.
They need to sell their oil to buy our, OUR food. So, now because we are growing corn for fuel...they have riots elsewhere, because we chose to be independent from them. NO, because we can demonstrate we don't need their difficult, unyielding, theocratic, doublespeaking, back-stabbing oil.
Look at what this whole ethanol debacle demonstrates!! We may buy their oil because it is cheaper, but ultimately THEY NEED THE USA. They need us for their damn food, cooking oil, and whatever else commodity comes from corn.
This may be the ‘sacrifice’ we need to make. The sacrifice that brings our troops home, the sacrifice that helps us win the war of ideas, the sacrifice to save democracy for our children.
Drill wells, build refineries, build nuclear power plants, open the coal fields closed by the co-president Clinton's, burn the EPA at the stake and tell the Iraqi's to either sell us all the oil we can use at $15.00 a barrel or let them defend themselves.
Save it pal! There is a huge problem right now and he still supports Ethanol in a big way! He's supposed to be a LEADER! If he blames Democraps for world wide Famine, believe me they would stop funding ethanol. He right now could suggest to drill in North Dakota. He's not! He could say that drilling in ANWAR is in the best concerns of national Security! He won't! Bush is not fixing the problem, he is exacerbating it! Blame the Democraps all you want, Bush aint leading to stop this insanity or fix it!
A farmer would have to receive $300.00 per bushel to be responsible for $.50 per year corn. The fact is that many Americans, and almost all of the 3rd world, have no idea how to feed themselves and whine and moan incessantly that they might actually have to pay fair market value for farm produce.
The idiocy of global warming, Ethanol and other envirowhacko policies are causing this country great harm. Maybe when food/fuel prices make both products unattainable to most, we’ll have change. Until that time, grin and pay!
Boo hoo. Tell it to the ragheads. I didn’t hear these same poor slobs bitchin’ when oil went from $30 a barrel to $115. Why is it the bedouins can charge whatever they want for THEIR commodities, but we’re somehow obligated to feed the world for free?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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