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<blockquote data-quote="Necropostophiliac" data-source="post: 1011853" data-attributes="member: 39844"><p>Record Drought May Be a Good Time to Stop Using Corn for Fuel</p><p></p><p>Newsflash: The United Nations and <em>The Wall Street Journal </em>just agreed on something. </p><p>Earlier this month the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization issued a statement urging</p><p> "an immediate, temporary suspension" of America's use of corn to produce ethanol, in order to</p><p> "allow more of the crop to be channelled toward food and feed uses."</p><p></p><p>Within 24 hours, <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443404004577581140907497810.html" target="_blank">the <em>Journal </em>responded</a>: "Natural disasters can't be controlled. Ethanol is </p><p>a man-made disaster that could be stopped."</p><p></p><p>The Department of Agriculture says we're likely to reap only 10.8 billion bushels of corn in 2012. </p><p>That sounds like a lot, but it's actually 13% less than we grew in 2011, and the smallest harvest since 2006.</p><p></p><p><u><span style="color: #800000">With so little corn to go around, U.S. law still mandates that we take 40% of the harvest and turn it into ethanol </span></u>--</p><p> not useful things like corn chips (yum!) or cattle feed, but a fuel blamed for everything from wasting water to </p><p>corroding engines to simply not being all that good a fuel source. </p><p>(A liter of ethanol, when burned, generates a third less energy than a liter of oil.)</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/08/18/drought-corn-ethanol-fuel/" target="_blank">Record Drought May Be a Good Time to Stop Using Corn for Fuel - DailyFinance</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Necropostophiliac, post: 1011853, member: 39844"] Record Drought May Be a Good Time to Stop Using Corn for Fuel Newsflash: The United Nations and [I]The Wall Street Journal [/I]just agreed on something. Earlier this month the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization issued a statement urging "an immediate, temporary suspension" of America's use of corn to produce ethanol, in order to "allow more of the crop to be channelled toward food and feed uses." Within 24 hours, [URL="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443404004577581140907497810.html"]the [I]Journal [/I]responded[/URL]: "Natural disasters can't be controlled. Ethanol is a man-made disaster that could be stopped." The Department of Agriculture says we're likely to reap only 10.8 billion bushels of corn in 2012. That sounds like a lot, but it's actually 13% less than we grew in 2011, and the smallest harvest since 2006. [U][COLOR=#800000]With so little corn to go around, U.S. law still mandates that we take 40% of the harvest and turn it into ethanol [/COLOR][/U]-- not useful things like corn chips (yum!) or cattle feed, but a fuel blamed for everything from wasting water to corroding engines to simply not being all that good a fuel source. (A liter of ethanol, when burned, generates a third less energy than a liter of oil.) [url=http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/08/18/drought-corn-ethanol-fuel/]Record Drought May Be a Good Time to Stop Using Corn for Fuel - DailyFinance[/url] [/QUOTE]
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