Originally Posted by jdavis
I wonder if the supply is low because so many are farming corn for ethanol!
Yes, the secret behind it are our Government's subventions.
It takes 0.7 gallons of gasoline to run the tractors and machines to produce 1 gallon of ethanol.
1 gallon of ethanol has only 70 % of the energy that's in a gallon of gasoline. (So if you would use the corn energy for the production of corn ethanol you would have left almost nothing over. The system would use for the production almost everything it produces. I am NOT kidding and I am not the only one who can hardly believe this insanity.)
The production costs for corn ethanol are so high that our Government pays more than $2.00 fore each gallon of corn ethanol (aside from the other subventions).
And this insanity, which makes healthy food and other essentials too expensive for poor people, robs the soil of too many nutrients and with its mono-cultures does a hell of a lot of damage to the environment and the weather -
all this mind-bogling incomprehensible stupidity -
is run by our representatives.
It is in fact our fault.
We elected those watchamacall'em!