[Peace-discuss] Foodstuff biofuels: going against the grain of humanity and common sense.

[C. G. Estabrook]

V. interesting (and a marvelous phrase: '...hear the piston scraping on this
hell-bound express fueled by ethanol..."). --CGE


E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
> 
> 
> Corn was down the limit on 30 June based on USDA's entirely false and 
> patently disingenuous rosy crop
> report, as speculators took their profits and ran.  But you can see that 
> the corn did not continue
> downward today, as the market looks out at a pretty lousy corn crop and 
> hears the piston scraping on this
> Hell-Bound Express fueled by Ethanol, "but the train it wont stop going, 
> no way to slow down."
> 
> Everything in Agriculture is connected.  Land going to corn drives down 
> soybean acres.
> The demand for soy oil also drives up soybean prices.
> 
> Nobody seems to notice, no one seems to care that high grain prices 
> starve poor people,
> and the money donated to feed the poorest goes half as far when the 
> price doubles.  A day
> will come when Attitude and fresh B.S. won't get the ticket punched.
> 
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