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Originally Posted by GatorB
WRONG. Try using LOGIC. Corn farmers that used to grow corn for FOOD are now growing it for FUEL thus leaving LESS corn for food. And corn is used in A LOT more products than you realize. Econ 101 says when demand is high and supply is short prices go UP. Therefor food prices go up. Also feed for cows and chickens is made from CORN. Thus it becomes more expensive to feed those anilmals and that cost is passed on to the consumer. Also farmers that used to grow other crops now are gowing corn to make a quick buck. Except this corn is not meant for food but ethonol so that does nothing to relieve the corn shortage for food. In addition because less amounts of other crop are being grown those crops go up in price because of lower supply.
Now see how easy things are when you use your brain and logic and reasoning? You can not dispute what I just posted.
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Yes I can see now, the correlation between a single digit percentage of the global corn crop being used for ethanol production and the massive food inflation across all crops; what logic. Why it must be all because of
the ethanol; couldn't have anything to do with fuel, fertilizer, drought, currency fluctuations, inadequate agriculture practices in most of the world or the hundreds of millions of people now eating two squares a day instead of one. Damn conspiracy by Bush and all those elite bastards to use my food for their SUV's. Thanks for helping me see the light.
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Well I expect democrats to support farm welfare like they support welfare for everyone. That's their nature. I expect someone form the party of supposedly LESS government and no welfare to behave differently.
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I think you'll find support for ethanol production widespread across the full political spectrum outside the borders of the U.S.A..