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[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

That would be a plus. It would be nice if corn got expensive enough that it wasn't used to simulate every other food. Maybe get some real sugar in our twinkies and some real fruit in our juice.

That's all well and good but with the fuel mandates and government subsidies more land will be switched over to corn production. How much do you think you'll have to pay for lettuce or carrots in order for the farmer(agricultural corporation) to consider growing them instead of the guaranteed profit in corn?

When they can efficiently make ethanol from non food biomass we'll be in good shape.
When Brazil has a bad growing season they import ethanol from the US and Canada.

One more thing, all the meat that eats grain will go up too.

[HungLikeJesus]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

That's all well and good but with the fuel mandates and government subsidies more land will be switched over to corn production. How much do you think you'll have to pay for lettuce or carrots in order for the farmer(agricultural corporation) to consider growing them instead of the guaranteed profit in corn?

When they can efficiently make ethanol from non food biomass we'll be in good shape.
When Brazil has a bad growing season they import ethanol from the US and Canada.

One more thing, all the meat that eats grain will go up too.

I wish I'd said that.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by HLJ

I wish I'd said that.

You did, I wrote that before I read your post. Let's just say I was agreeing with you.

[HungLikeJesus]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

You did, I wrote that before I read your post. Let's just say I was agreeing with you.

I guess we can consider it as independent confirmation.

And you didn't waste as many words saying it.