seattle.politics

"Bill Bonde ( 'the oblique allusion in lieu of the frontal attack' )"
used a stick in the sand to babble
>Christopher Helms wrote:
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>> Ethanol doesn't do any of that stuff. It requires 19% more energy to
>> produce than it contains, it's not all that clean, it is driving the
>> price of everything from milk to KFC up because it is driving up grain
>> prices in an already inflationary enviornment and since there is no
>> actual market for it it requires massive federal subsidies to
>> artificially push it onto the market.
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>You keep making the mistake that this is about corn. It's not. Corn
>isn't the ultimate way to make ethanol.

Then why is the government putting so much money into it?

And has nobody thought about the ramifications of drastically
increasing the acreage being treated with chemical fertilizers,
herbicides and pesticides?

Swill
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THIS is how we have to win the Iraq War
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