Mr. Burchfiel,

Respectfully I thought I had put this to rest when spanking Rush Limbaugh on this site along with most of the editors who were spouting as you are without full benefit of understanding the bio fuel situation.

Mr. Limbaugh quietly changed his mind in not giving credit here, but Newsbusters was the source in my postings.

Apparently Mr. Burchfiel you do not read this site, so I will educate yourself and the new additions.

2 1/2 years ago President Bush in the State of the Union announced a new United States policy. Most of you people are so disconnected from the econmic sector you have no understanding of what he was stating.
His points were America was switching to bio fuels and getting out of the Middle East.

I immediately noted what was going on as this was a massive shift in US policy in that food was going to be used as weapon of war to balance the world to the prices of Asian products.
Oil nations can leverage all they like, but Ahmadinejad and Putin just found out you can't eat oil and as oil prices are now being deliberately dropped as I offered to the government in 2007, the price of food in Iran is still high.

Your Europeans whom you seem so enthralled by do not like bio fuels as their banks suck up the lions share of OPEC oil money. So as the oil price drops due to use of bio fuels, that means Europeans financiers loose billions of dollars.

Strangely Mr. Burchfiel you do not equate that Americans then keep those billions of dollars in the US economy. The rural American never saves money but spends it on products and upgrades.
This means people in Minneapolis building pickups, people in South Carolina furniture, people in Pennsylvania building appliances which in turn purchase products which employ you.

THIS is what Gov. Palin is speaking about of keeping energy money here.

Europeans want the energy money there and as you are unaware of Cargill and the major grain handlers, they are all European and hold the monopoly on American grain. They drove up prices in this and spread the food shortage nonsense the same way they say an oil shortage abounds.

Europeans also like getting their hands on American grain donations to the UN, which they then cut short and resell for huge profits to poor people around the world.

Brazil does indeed make bio fuel out of sugarcane which is fine. If you had bothered to look and LISTEN to our Canadian friends who produce huge amounts of bio fuel, you would hear the Truth. Ethanol burns cleaner, scrubs fuel systems and is the best of fuel additives to engines.

You though chose to believe European and oil cartel propaganda instead of researching the facts.

This is about economics and I will give you an understanding of keeping US dollars turning over in American hands inside of the United States for your complaint of "government subsidies".

According to my proven Lame Cherry taxation doctrine, the government always in taxes gets back everything it sends out as follows.

1 dollar goes to ethanol production. That dollar then is taxed at 4 cents (It is more but I'm proving a point). That 96 cents then goes as the dollar is turned over to an employee where it is taxed by the government at 20 cents income tax.

That 76 cents then goes to the bank which is taxed another 4 cents. where it is 72 cents, which goes to buying groceries for a teller where another 4 cents comes off to 68 cents.
The grocer then has another 20 cents as the bank does, as the teller does and you are left with 8 cents going back to the bank and 2 more times, that entire dollar in 1 day has returned back to the government a profit of 16 cents.

That is why I loathe extreme taxation as America has as it retards all growth when it flows to billionaires like Warren Buffett or some medical lab or university that keeps the money instead of spending it.

In closing, I'm trying to be civil here Mr. Burchfiel, but the next time you call American farmers BANDITS, I will take you down several pegs sir.
Your "bandits" made out in NOTHING. You did not figure in the rising costs of land rent, that it costs $1000 to fuel a tractor at each days filling, fertilizer which is oil bases went up as did herbicide and pesticide.

Your "bandits" planted this spring at high prices, are harvesting now as the cereal grain prices have dropped in some cases 500% and diesel fuel is still running at $4.55 a gallon.
So before you slander a group of people being economically raped while your mouth is full, do a great deal of research before throwing around terms like "bandits".

It was Cargill who made out like bandits and are literal criminals in a monopoly, but your sources will not bother to lead you in that direction as they are European based.

You did an extreme disservice to this site as Rush Limbaugh did to his program before he was informed of the facts.
Barack Obama wants biofuels as the financiers gain funds from this and are about to in this oil crash to buy up all of the independent ethanol and bio diesel plants, so another monopoly will be created in their control of bio fuels.

John McCain is correct in trade on this, but incorrect in national security and world policy over bio fuels. There is no cost in this and it benefits even keyboard typers espousing views on this site.

Those are the most notable facts, but that is enough for today. If I offended, I probably meant to in making a point but did so in making this a memory you do not forget as I witnessed thousands of farmers broken by Jimmy Carter and this cartel. I never heard one of you people hear being well fed complaining about farmers and ranchers not being able to afford school clothes for their kids or living in poverty for 50 years in "American cheap food policy" which all of you profitted by.
To slander a noble group of selfless people as "bandits" is as dirty as the political rape which is going on against Sarah Palin.

I do not expect life's experts posting here to know all, but they sure can notice Rush Limbaugh toning down and doing a little reading on this site of the bloggers as the facts do show up here in relating who the problems are and who the people being screwed over are.

Thank you for your time.

With all due respect.

agtG

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When the crops start to fail ... Factory farming is not very cold resistant.

Cargill is a US company, not a European company. HQ in Minnesota & Mr. Cargill himself lives in Northern Wisconsin. Not a defense of them just pointing out they & ADM (another ethanol company) have US roots. Like most companies they care about net profit, not where it comes from. The US government created a windfall for them and they naturally exploited it, just like Countrywide or AIG. Yet another reason to limit the power of our government.