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Originally Posted by GatorB
Listen dipshit corn is being used NOW as in NOW as in TODAY. And food prices are increasing because of it. If every scrap of available farmland was used for corn prodcution and that corn was used for fuel only it still wouldn't be enough. Which part of that don't you get? I'm trying to educate you. You already admit you don't know shit so take the words from someone who has actually studied this and done the research ok?
And ethonal isn't any cheaper anyways. Sure it's cheper by the gallon by you get less gas milage so in the end it's still costing you $3 a gallon. Except then milk is $8 a gallon and eggs are $4 a dozen and maybe a pound of cheap ass ground beef is $3.
99% of everyone that owns a SUV or pick-up doesn't need it. If they went back to buying regular cars we'd solve most of our oil problem right there. I see all kinds of idiots that own pick-ups that never ever haul shit in it. Which is the whole fucking purpose of a god damned pick up truck.
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I love being called dipshit. . . it makes me feel all warm inside.
I agree most people don't need an SUV and getting rid of them would help a lot.
I admitted I don't know much about the growing aspect when it comes to how much of what food it would take to create enough fuel for us to use and how it would effect costs of other foods. I simply suggested that maybe if more people were growing these things it wouldn't drive up costs as much. Maybe it will make milk $37.95 a gallon, maybe it won't. I don't know. Admitting that doesn't make me a dipshit.
But that doesn't change the fact that I believe we need to explore other options. What happens if one day other countries just stop selling us oil? The answer is we are fucked. What happens if the oil just runs out and we have done nothing to get an alternative source of fuel going? The answer is we are fucked. Does thinking this make me a dipshit?
I don't know all the answers, hell I don't know much of anything about this entire thing, my point in all of this is that I feel something needs to be done. It won't be easy. It won't be fast or cheap or painless, but the potential alternative is really ugly.
Oh, and I never said corn alone. I do know enough to understand that corn is probably the least effective thing to use. If you actually read my post you would see that I said, "if suddenly corn and beets were what we were using." By saying this I implied that we would be using some type of food item be it corn, beets, cabbage or whatever. But maybe the dipshit in me gave you too much credit in assuming you could read and understand what I was saying.