Sorry for paraphrasing ML King, but my goodness.  Finally someone in the liberal MSM is putting out the truth about bio-fuels and the Law of Unintended Consequences.  It is too bad that no has included a story on the decreasing amounts of food stuffs the USA has shipped overseas as result of the increased use of our grains in bio-fuels.

The only thing that would be more shocking is for someone at CNN to print out the fact that we have enough oil available here in the USA to make up for what we bring in from the Middle East and enough coal to take care of our electrical needs for the foreseeable future. 

Dear God (and mother nature),

On behalf of a vast number of my fellow humans I want to apologize for the unfathomable ignorance of a significant number of of our species. Yes Father, you did create us with the capacity for good reason, yet it appears once again we prefer ignorance over the obvious. Corn = Food....Oil = Fuel. Our prayer to you Father is that some pleasant Geometry teacher will introduce this theorem and eventually it will become a part of the common social intelligence of our culture. Oh wait, that already happened even before the Geomotry consideration so it appears the obvious is to be denied in this day and age. Well, Lord help us in spite of ourselves and thank you that someone in the MsM is willing to report this to the sheep. Next please!

Shut up and blog! If you claim to be a conservative, please don't disgrace yourself and conservatism by thinking and arguing like a liberal.

Somebody finally gets it. I just wonder how long it will take for the American people to really force those pimping Ethanol back. The best way to fight Ethanol is to reject it when there is a choice, & to reject politicians who are too damn stupid to understand that putting our food into our gastanks is economic suicide.

"Some of us are wise, some of us are otherwise"  Mark Levin

So how are the libs gonna explain this to their fanatics? At least someone is making a profit. See below....

Abbott: We need more supplies. Go get oil for our grain.

Costello: Why does Granny need oil?

Abbott: Not Granny! We need oil to run our tractors to grow grain so we can turn it into oil. Now go get oil so we can toil the soil.

Costello: I don't think we ought to soil our toes.

Abbott: Soil our toes?? Why don't you move away from that tractor so you can hear me. Hook up that plow. And for God's sake, don't pour any more grain alchohol into the tank, that's expensive stuff.

Costello: The Kos boys drank all of Granny's alchohol, but they did say thanks. How about I hook up this plow for ya?

Abbot: That's just what I said. We're wasting time. Now here's what we're going to do. Call up big oil and tell them we'll buy everything they have. They're taking a beating these days from Congress, so we ought to be able to get it cheap. Use it in our tractors here and plant more grain. We can get a good price for the grain these days by selling to our Green buddies to convert into gas. This takes food off of everyone's table, so our grain goes up even more, causing us to use more and more cheap oil to plant more and more grain for bigger profits.

Costello: Sounds great. What are we going to do with all the money?

Abbot: We're gonna buy those damn Yankees and tell them who's on first.

Costello: Well then who's on first?

Abbot: Yes .....

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If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it is in English, thank a Soldier. - My barber

We don't eat crude oil, we don't eat coal, we don't eat uranium, and we don't eat wood. All of these materials the US has an overabundance of we can use to transform into energy.  So what do the Einsteins in the US government mandate? Lets's take the main ingredient in cereals, snack foods, chips, soft drinks, feed for dairy, feed for beef, feed for pork, feed for humans,  and turn it into an inefficient substitute for petroleum, thereby creating a shortage of food staples sending food prices sky high. And to top it off, do we see fuel prices go down???  Noooooo. We get the double whammy because as food prices go up fuel prices continue to rise.

The sad part we can't just pin this on the dems.   

OK, there are 56 Pounds in a bushel of corn. A bushel of corn goes for $6 today vs. say $2.50 a few years ago. So corn is at $.007/oz today vs. $.0028/oz. a few years ago.

Kellogs Corn flakes go for $4.39/18oz box, or $.24/oz. That means Corn goes for...3400% markup over commodity price now.

Maybe Kellogs could survive with a 2000% mark up rather than raising prices?

Assigning blame for end user food prices to commodity prices is not a 1:1 match. There is certainly enough fluff in the value to consumer to adjust market price to consumer demand. The shift in the cost of the commodity plays a very small role in end-user pricing of packaged foods.

Here's more news attesting to the wisdom of making corn into ethanol:  According to an AP story appearing in the Mason City (Iowa) Globe-Gazette, the USDA expects farmers to plant LESS corn this year.  I won't reiterate the reasons here.  You can read the article.  However, with less corn sought by more ethanol plants, record corn prices are likely to go higher.

Wet fields in much of corn country may also delay planting and reduce yields. 

When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.

More sugar!

Plans are afoot out in the leftist Hawaiian Islands to make ethanol out of sugar cane. Projects are already being mentioned on the isles of Kauai and Maui.

http://www.bizjourna...

I never understood the reasoning behind using a food source to create fuel. It’s a negative sum equation.

When we use corn as a food source we create waste products through the process of digestion that can be used to aid in the production of the corn crop. We naturally generate the nutrients that the corn needs to grow. It’s a symbiotic relationship, a positive sum equation

Conversely, when we use the corn as a fuel source that fuel is burned and no waste products are recovered that can be used to aid in the production of the corn crop. We unnaturally destroy the nutrients that the corn needs to grow. It’s a parasitic relationship, a negative sum equation.

Why are we promoting a parasitic relationship that will invariably lead to the reduction in the production of both food AND fuel and call that a benefit to mankind?

(on edit: that's food and fuel, not corn and fuel)

If the truth of rising food prices gets out...

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