[pf] feeding cars, not people.

· Here's how insisting on driving your car, removes food from being
available for the less-rich half of humanity. I'm not against putting a
renewable fuel like alcohol in your fuel tank. One alcohol or another /can/
be made from corn /stalks/, forestry trash and other wasted organic material.

· I /am/ against, in future years, farmers using good farm land to grow the
style of corn that's used for such non-essentials as the current wildly
excessive US gasoline use, when they could be growing edible corn. It's the
same reason I'm against feed-lot ("corn-fed") beef, instead of range-grazed
("free-range") meat. And of course, less of it. Italians and most people in
developed countries are /happy/ with a small fraction of the amount of beef
and pork that US citizens seem to regard as their civil right.

· The richer 3/4 in the USA are now acting very much like the aristocrats
in old Europe with their groaning tables and luxurious carriages, that the
founders of the country came to America to escape. Conspicuous consumption
it was then, and still is.

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http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=8352 of 27th Sept., has:

"There's a lot riding on this." Nobody agrees with that more than U.S.
farmers. Currently, most ethanol in the United States is made from the
nation's abundant and cheap corn supplies. In the 1999/2000 crop year,
which ended August 30, an estimated record 570 million bushels of corn were
converted to ethanol. That figure could reach 600 million bushels in
2000/01, the U.S. Agriculture Department said.

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David.
(David MacClement) davd@ihug.co.nz 
http://www.geocities.com/davdd.geo/index.html#top
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