Government Mandates Corn Growth/Yield Usage.

Press Releases: PR Newswire: Oil/energy-Posted on Tue, Jun. 10, 2008

Food Before Fuel Campaign Launches With Goal of Encouraging Congress to Revisit Food-To-Fuel Policies -By Food Before Fuel

NOTE: Below is only an excerpt, but you can read the whole article by clicking the link above.

"Congressional policies mandate the conversion of more than one-third of all U.S. corn to ethanol, with additional subsidies and tariffs further promoting the diversion of food to fuel. Food policy experts broadly agree that these policies have contributed to record food price inflation, and the International Monetary Fund reports that U.S. food-to-fuel policy is responsible for more than 30 percent of food price inflation globally."
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I agree with others (videos too) that if Ethanol is such a great idea, why does our Government have to MANDATE the growing of our fields, and why does MY TAX MONEY (yeah, that would be yours too) have to subsidize the whole Ethanol/E85 fiasco.

So, let me try to summarize my thought pattern here, and see if you agree, or if I am full of it...
Some of my and your tax dollars subsidize and support, with the mandate from our Government, to produce and promote a product I don't agree with, has no real cost savings (in reality I am being kind it has a negative cost savings as it is typically only 25% cheaper, and as much as 33% less mpg), cost an average of 1.3 gallons of regular gasoline to produce 1 gallon of the ethanol product, and recently may have proved actually has a larger green gas footprint than fossil fuel.

The real thing that pisses me off about that last paragraph (and should you too) is that it cost an average of 1.3 gallons of regular gas to produce 1 gallon of ethanol!!!!!!

ARE YOU TELLING ME THAT I COULD HAVE 1300 GALLONS OF GAS FREED UP IF WE DID NOT MAKE 1000 GALLONS OF ETHANOL??? I think this might help lower gas prices, you think???

*sigh* Man, people, start thinking about this stuff instead of jumping on the latest band wagon.