We exporting huge amounts of oil currently and frack more than enough to meet our needs and that of others. We do not need ethanol to meet fuel needs, We have ethanol because farmers demand it through lobby groups. I'll take more CRP and slightly higher gas prices. The price of Chicken and Beef are of little concern to me as 80% plus of the meat I consume I shoot myself. The ethanol program is huge welfare program and a terrible use of land in addition to putting an incredible amount of nitrates in to the Gulf and increasing the dead zone there. Nothing more than a subsidy for poor environmental practices, not to mention it makes my truck run like crap.
Ethanol is a scam. Another hoax foisted on us by science deniers, like MMGW. Takes more energy to produce a gallon of ethanol than that gallon of ethanol will produce.
Its corporate welfare right down the line, from the farmers who grow the corn to the processors who produce the ethanol. Should be stopped immediately. Too much marginal land has been put under the plough for this scam. Id rather see it back to habitat.
The ethanol program is indefensible from every direction. Interesting to me, given the avowed conservatism of most of this board, how some favoured welfare programs get defended. Horrible when its a single black mother in Compton......just fine when its the farmer with a half section in corn.
