Exactly.  Go back to the impact on the price of corn itself - a food staple in several countries. 

So, Ben and Matt, disadvantaged people in other countries must suffer more so that we can accomplish nothing other than feel less guilty about a mild phenomenon that we have no role in causing?

And it produces less energy relative to gasoline, so you get poorer gas mileage (not much, but hey!)... so you have to buy MORE of it than you would gasoline.

*deep breath*

 Say I was wondering, how many acres of corn does it take to produce  1 barrel (30 gallons) of ethanol?

Does it take more energy to make ethanol than the amount of energy one can get out of it?

One needs to buy it, to plant it ,weed it, harvest it, process it and then ship it.

Entitlement over infrastructure every SINGLE time.

Before it gets that far we'll have to deal with the issue of genetically engineered corn.

Somebody will find a way to enhance the output and that's when the fight starts over genetically engineered corn finding its way into the food supply.

Send lawyers, guns and money.  The offices of Bob Loblaw will be advertising on TV trolling for every birth anomaly possible.

~LYDSEXICS UNTIE!~

"and that all our top soil is going to be depleted. That we're looking at another Dust Bowl in 10 years."

They'll just blame it on global warming.

Greetings Parker,

I wanted to explain to you and other posters a few things about bio fuels and where you are wrong about land and crops.

Bio fuels only take out the starch or oil out of crops. They do not take out the feed value, but in fact break the crops down into more digestable products after being processed. This means they are still animal feed or if people wanted to they still could eat them.

I broke this story on my blog a year before anyone was even starting to consider crop shortages or price rises. I also predicted that the wacko left would start making bogus statements in dealing with it. All of that has happened. What no one has figured out yet are these facts which I know George Bush knows.

First, America and South America produce the viable food reserves in the world. This means Europe self sustains itself, Russia plods along attempting to feed itself as Africa does when communists are not committing genocide and China with the Mideast are a black hole incapable of feeding themselves.

Second, the United States can with import cut offs, uncapping our oil wells in the west that are capped, along with bio fuel inclusion can be self reliant.

Third, and this is the big third, America is having an economic war waged upon us by the Eurasians from central European naroc bankers, Russian Bolsheviks in Putin, Islamocommunists in the Mideast, the latino banditos and the Chicoms. The one thing that is the great equalizer in this is food.

Iran can make oil a thousand dollas a barrel. China can implode the dollar. Terrorists can vaporize American cities bankrupting the American economy.........but in the end America will still be producing food and the more food rises in price the more it will topple Muslim regimes, Chicom regimes, plunge naroc banking profits being eaten by their own inflation and causing comrade Putin's FSB state to crumble.

They started this, but America will finish it on food. They can try and eat their oil or their dusty Chinese dirt.....but in the end the entire regime system allied against America will implode in 90 days without American supply.

While others were like Limbaugh mocking Bush on switch grass fuel, I perked up immediately as I knew that President Bush knew something horrendous was coming. He knew it for certain and he has planned for it. Bio fuel plants are going up all over the midwest and Bush stated America is not getting out of Iraq, but the entire Middle East in 2009.

There is as General Patton's uncle told him in 1930 "a hell of a war coming" and there is a hellish war coming on the world soon. The Eurasians after the coming Mideast WMD blow out are going to arm like the world has never seen and then it is going to be Russians, Chinese, Indians, Muslims and central Europeans slugging it out using weapon systems you never dreamed existed with no holds barred.

Bush knows this and has placed America in the best possible position to survive. The war should have been fought using American firepower out of Iraq on the Asian steppes, but ignorant democrats have now doomed this war to be fought from the Balkans, into Prague, Bohemia and into the Rhine and there going to be nothing left as it flows back into the valley's around Jerusalem.

There is no stopping this as the war has already started. Food will be the breakpoint trigger in response to the resource triggers being aimed at America.

America will still have the food, bio fuel and livestock feed supply, but the rest of the world is going to have almost 4 billion furious, starving, Islamists, communists and murderous democracies locked into Eurasia and they will be at war.

Do not every underestimate Bush. I may not agree with his latest ideas, but those people have been planning for a war a decade from now or then when they started. Bush is a historian and knows it is about to repeat itself.

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