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It’s a double payday for upChuck. First he personally got a piece of the bail-out money. Now he can sell his corn for fuel.
Nice work if you can grift it.
Trump’s view of politics and the world is often described as “transactional.” I suppose that’s because you don’t sound quite as coolly analytical if you use the word “crooked.”
Great. So Cal’s air is becoming more smoggy, more cars on the road, trucks, etc. And our cars are old, 1998 and 2002.
He’s 85. It’s too bad most Iowans won’t benefit from this.
Solution: Tesla.
Just substitute cowboy with for oilman.
“Everything about this is good, good, good,” Grassley said.
He’s all sweetness and light ever since the Delcolax kicked in.
And why is it that all those red ruby states with oil have growing wind farms.
I am beginning to see a Robbing Peter to Pay Paul effect here.
In this case, Farmers are screwed over by tariffs. Lower constraints on Ethanol to allow Farmers to sell more product. Steal fresh air from everyone else. Farmers however, breath easier.
Meanwhile, Detroit is going to gear up for large, gas guzzling cars with really neato fins and bullet tail lights. Peroxide Platinum blonds with bullet bras, applaud the effort, finally having a place to display their sense of cliche. Because everyone knows the GOP wants to bring back the 50s and the good old days.
Will there be poodle skirts? If there are then I’m in.
Among his findings are: An acre of U.S. corn yields about 7,110 pounds
of corn for processing into 328 gallons of ethanol. But planting,
growing and harvesting that much corn requires about 140 gallons of
fossil fuels and costs $347 per acre, according to Pimentel’s analysis.Aug 6, 2001Ethanol fuel from corn faulted as 'unsustainable subsidized food …
news.cornell.edu/stories/2001/08/ethanol-corn-faulted-energy-waster-scientist-says
There was a time when agriculture meant growing food.
These huge mono crops are an environmental disaster with high uses of pesticides, herbicides, and super expensive equipment.
These “farmers” get by on very thin margins and keep adding more and more acreage hoping to get rich or at least pay for that combine they bought 10 years ago.
It’s time this type of agriculture went the way of dinosaurs.
I mentioned this to the wife. I got a low growl and a “I do hope not!”,
We will let this one be.
And the more affordable Chevy Volt is nice, too.
Is Detroit really going to do that? Ford already said no.
I am just extrapolating on the trends. I understand DDT is also pretty boss too.
Has anyone yet suggested firewood as an energy source? It worked so well in colonial days.
In two years, it will all go back to Obama-era or earlier regs.
Why spend the money to go backwards?