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Posted by Hugh MacKay on October 27, 2003 at 01:19:50 from (216.208.58.172):
In Reply to: Re: ethanol and fuel mileage posted by Wayne Swenson on October 26, 2003 at 15:56:20:
Wayne: I believe in your last sentence, lies the crux of the real problem with ethanol. I may be speaking a bit out of line here, as I haven't looked at the economics of growing corn for the ethanol trade for some 12 years. At that time growing the corn for ethanol, at a price to make the fuel competative, was definately not going to keep the wolf away from the farmer's door. In my many years of farming I have seen more of these scheems to keep farmers going, and in reality all they turned out to be was farmers keeping society going. The other matter that could be a factor here is if that millitary cost was factored into the cost of crude oil, probably farmers could become wealthy growing corn for ethanol. Farmers used to take a certain pride in the fact their products kept the consumer cost of living at a minamum. Today farmers still supply their goods at lowest price possible. There is one difference, now it is just cheap raw materials for the corperate elite. The very same people that need the millitary for cheap crude.
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