update: the post for some reason showed it was from drew. she gets too fired up about this issue and we would not let her post her thoughts in an effort to keep the site g rated.
this is a nifty article about the impacts from ethanol.
so this year government law states that 5% of gas should be ethanol and it is to go to 22% by 2022. but if we used a third of our corn to get to 5%, i don’t have the time right now to run the calculation, but a quick look says we can’t physically get to 22%. also, if the ethanol industry is almost completely subsidized by the government (my money) and corn prices are at an all time high, that’s got to be some big profits for somebody. we should windfall tax corn too. or at least stop making me pay to support the industry and then pay for it again when I buy gas.
come on people, we can create a whole drug industry for ADHD and do breast augmentation through the belly button. can we really not come up with a better idea for alternative fuels.
maybe the $150 billion i’ll be forced to pay after november to subsidize more research will get us another idea.