[Land-speed] Corn and Ethanol, not LSR

[ddahlgren at snet.net]

At the end of the day car consumption of petro products only accounts
for 18 % so are not we working on the wrong side  of the decimal place??
Dave

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Subject: [Land-speed] Corn and Ethanol, not LSR


Yeah, corn is grown as a commodity and price supported by the
government. They have to support it because the farmers aren't making
money growing it. Thanks to petroleum based fertilizers (nitrogen) and
high yield hybrid seed, farmers have ceased rotating crops, with the
exception of some soybean. This is why Iowa is brown, except when the
corn's growing. There's plenty of nitrogen runoff, too, which is why the
Gulf is dead. Their farming takes place only a few weeks a year, when
they aren't doing their other job. We think of farming corn as a
renewable resource, but the way we do it isn't sustainable, and it's
hugely petroleum based. BTW, there are some few hip folks out there who
call themselves Grass Farmers (no, not that, Otto). They'd argue the
best solar energy use is natural grasslands, and careful pasturing of
different animals in a scheduled procession via mobile pens produces
high food yields naturally, while the grass grows like hell. We cannot
grow fuel for vehicles, only people. My 2 cents. BJ

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