Thursday, March 27, 2008

From Dubai to Des Moines...

This ethanol thing is wonderful. Using corn to produce fuel will solve all our problems.

Wrong.

Last I heard, you could use corn for FOOD. Have we solved world hunger yet? Send THEM the corn, if we’ve got so much of it. You want to go tell a kid in Africa he can’t have lunch because someone’s SUV needs to have their tank filled?

Also, what else can you use petroleum for? You can’t eat it. So, I say, use the food for food and the fuel for fuel.

The ethanol scam is an attempt to transfer wealth from Arabs to people who own land in Iowa. I’m not necessarily against that, but don’t tell me you are growing corn to make ethanol to save the environment…you’re doing it to make money.

Pretty soon, we’ll be talking about the price of a barrel of flour.