[Peace-discuss] Foodstuff biofuels: going against the grain of
humanity and common sense.
E. Wayne Johnson
ewj at pigs.ag
Wed Jul 2 17:31:29 CDT 2008
its a "normal" sound for this sort of machinery...
Milk was $3.69/gallon at county market yesterday. A dollar more than a
few months ago as I recall.
But the dollar is not worth as much either.
C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> 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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