I heard an economist bring up a great point. With all the subsidies going to corn growing farmers for ethanol, a lot of farmers are switching from growing other food crops, thus creating a huge demand that cannot be filled; which will raise prices on everything, not to mention corn demand is skyrocketing due to ethanol, further increasing our food costs, not just in corn products but with meat, since meat farmers will have to pay more for livestock feed. Since the demand for other food crops will not be met because of this, we will have to resort to importing our food! And like he pointed out, look at how tainted our pets food was from foreign countries. Although human imported food would have stricter regulations, still, we would be relying on foreign producers to fill those demands!
Personally, I'd rather import our oil, rather than our food!
2007-06-22
12:01:58
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