May Obama come to visit your house.
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From: "Lee Fox" <lee.fox@sbcglobal.net>
To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 4:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Spridgets Digest, Vol 48, Issue 85
> Jim,
>
> I agree with everything you said about PIK and aquifers, etc. except that
> the EPA does not make laws and does not push ethanol. Congress makes the
> laws and directs the EPA and other agencies to carry them out. In this
> case, the Ag lobby pushed Congress aggressively to require ethanol in our
> gas and subsidized the producers to provide it.
>
> BTW, this is the greatest government on earth and I proudly vote
> democratic. It was our former Rep. governor (MO) that gave his brother a
> huge sweetheart deal for an ethanol plant. His dad is now our newest US
> senator, Roy Blunt. Go figure.
>
> Lee
>
> On 5/26/2011 3:13 PM, spridgets-request@autox.team.net wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 14:40:46 -0500
>> From: Jim Johnson<bmwwxman@gmail.com>
>> Cc:spridgets@autox.team.net
>> Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Re A (sad) tale of ethanol???
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>>
>> Good on ya, Mate. I live in Dodge City Kansas where if farming
>> disappeared
>> tomorrow so would our city (wheat, corn& meat). However, this intimate
>> contact with the farm community allows me to see what PIK and other
>> subsidies have done. There are farmers out here who basically quit
>> farming
>> years ago when they found that playing the government subsidy game was
>> far
>> less work than actually growing much of anything. Not only less work, but
>> higher paying!! AND, in the case of corn, they are sucking up the last
>> of
>> our most significant natural resource, water.
>>
>> We rely on the Ogallala Aquifer for water. Once the government
>> accelerated
>> the ethanol fiasco, all these farmers turned to growing irrigated corn -
>> not
>> as feed, but as a cash crop for the ethanol plants. Fine, you say? What
>> if
>> it takes more water than you were thinking to make corn based ethanol?
>>
>> A study, published in the journal - Environmental Science and Technology
>> and
>> the University of Minnesota found that as corn-based ethanol production
>> approximately doubled nationwide between 2005 and 2008, related water use
>> more than tripled. Since then it has continued to rise dramatically. In
>> the
>> past several years, the water level in the aquifer here (where we grow
>> most
>> of the nation's wheat and feed and raise most of its cattle) is dropping
>> at
>> an alarming rate and many wells are going dry leaving the land a desert
>> not
>> even capable of watering cattle.
>>
>> In short, corn based ethanol as pushed by the EPA is driving up the cost
>> of
>> all foods, not just corn, while also depleting the aquifers at a
>> staggering
>> rate. When that water is gone, it will take centuries to replenish and
>> over
>> those centuries many people all over the world will starve to death for
>> lack
>> of food.
>>
>> If you believe the EPA knew what it was doing, then you are naive. If EPA
>> believed it knew what it was doing then the law of unintended
>> consequences
>> reins supreme.
>>
>> Cheers!!
>> Jim Vote democratic if you want more great government in your life.
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