Climategate

[denuseri]

Corn ethanol is hardely a good alternative. Sugar cane would be better. Though nieather are nearly as good as hydrogen.

And I didnt say all business were bad, but faceless corperations are greedy.

[DuncanONeil]

Corn ethanol is hardely a good alternative. Sugar cane would be better. Though nieather are nearly as good as hydrogen.

And I didnt say all business were bad, but faceless corperations are greedy.

The data does not support the claim that "faceless corperations (sic) are greedy"

[steelish]

Corn ethanol is hardely a good alternative.

No...it's not. But the government in their infinite wisdom decided it WAS and started to subsidize corn farmers that were growing corn for ethanol. What happened? The price of corn at produce departments skyrocketed, the price of beef and chicken went up due to the lack of grain for feed. It effected so much that the government didn't think of. That's the problem - they jump to solutions that aren't well thought out.

[DuncanONeil]

I live in Wisconsin. When the Ethanol Mandate went into effect I caught a farmer on a call in show.
He was receiving $1.25 per bushel of corn. He had told his wife that it was their last year. He was giving up! The mandate announcement immediately jumped the price to over $4.00 per bushel! He no longer needed to quit. But that is not the price only for corn into ethanol, but corn in general. Meaning that everything that uses corn has an concomitant increase in cost and hence price to us.

No...it's not. But the government in their infinite wisdom decided it WAS and started to subsidize corn farmers that were growing corn for ethanol. What happened? The price of corn at produce departments skyrocketed, the price of beef and chicken went up due to the lack of grain for feed. It effected so much that the government didn't think of. That's the problem - they jump to solutions that aren't well thought out.