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August 7, 2016
Millions of acres of corn, across the country, grown to burn.
One the price is going to go up, making things like cow feed and other uses of corn more expensive and 2. farmer are going to, without restraints, plant ever larger amounts of corn, which will 1. push out other crops like wheat and 2. require more land use to plant even more corn. Which is why you can now go from Eastern Colorado to Western NY and essentially see nothing but corn. Millions of acres of corn, across the country, grown to burn.Somehow this was supposed to be environmentally friendly? The Law Of Unintended Consequences Hits Biofuels | The Arts Mechanical
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Yet someday some Greenie will have a Liberal Eureka Moment and will demand that the Government find a way to turn Ethanol into cattle food to feed the poor
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at August 7, 2016 10:46 AM
I can attest to the truth of the corn glut. I have twice driven almost all across the country in the last couple years. Corn and soybeans forever.
Posted by: pbird at August 7, 2016 11:57 AM
They also go into a rage if they see a plastic bag on a fence post and then beautify America by sticking thousands of those butt ugly, inefficient, outrageously expensive, and worse than worthless windmills on every hill in sight.
Posted by: Dennis Myers at August 7, 2016 2:54 PM
There have already been riots in Mexico because the price of corn has gone way up.
Posted by: Darkwater at August 7, 2016 8:13 PM
G.K. Chesterton summed it up well with, "It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem."
Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck at August 8, 2016 12:37 PM
Corn corn everywhere and not an ear to eat.
Posted by: tripletap at August 9, 2016 6:52 AM