How much will we pay to big oil and giant agribusinesses before we end corn as a cheap reliable food source?

Question

Ask the environmentalists.

Here are some interesting statistics.

One out of 3 ears of corn grown in the US feeds cars, not hungry Americans.

One of ten Americans uses food stamps.

Almost all environmental groups want to pay even more subsidies and turn more food into gasoline, and more multinationalist agribussiness farmers and oil company tycoons into millionaires and billionaires. It’s not about poison; it’s about how warm the poison is.

The planet is at stake they say, but THEIR CHILDREN are not starving; not yet, anyway.

And the bad news keeps on coming. Another staple, soy beans is becoming very profitable to convert as fuel, and corn is being planted instead of comparatively cheap food crops.

Starving all the hungry is a terrible way to win the war on poverty.

Finally, I would never trust anyone who thought that biodiesel was clean. They had to want this so bad that truth and reality just didn't matter and all rhyme or reason was in a huge fog, lost.

Answer 1

Ask our government. they support this stupid idea through mandates.

Answer 2

We have other resources we could use, like turning coal into usable fuel.  With proper incentives we could utilize this resource effectively and efficiently. The more efficiently we utilize a resource the less waste, meaning less pollution.

Answer 3

Don't ask environmentalists, ask politicians.  Corn based ethanol is promoted by them.

I'll agree corn based ethanol is a dubious proposition.  I see it as a bridge to ethanol made from low value crops like sawgrass.  That grows on poor land with little water, and can be grown in places unsuitable for food crops.

Answer 4

An additional problem with ethanol is that they are cutting down trees to plant more corn which is releasing tons of carbon dioxide. The trees help protect our planet because they store so much of the carbon that we emit.

Answer 5

That's true, the environmentalists forced the politicians to subsidize ethanol and now we're really paying for it, but they've done that for decades now.

They won't let us drill when we have hundreds of billions of barrels available and they won't let us use nuclear power.  They got DDT banned for no reason and that's killed millions over the years.  There's no end to the destruction these "environmentalists" have done and will continue to do.  It's a shame really.  I know many environmentalists want to do good, but the majority are just evil.

I read where displaced communists found a home in the environmental movement and took it over.  Now they work behind the scenes to destroy capitalism.  I worry that they are succeeding.