Comments on: Food Prices could increase by 35% due to Corn Ethanol http://blatantreality.com/2008/06/27/food-prices-could-increase-by-35-due-to-corn-ethanol/ Highlighting Emerging Energy Technologies Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:41:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Blatant Reality » Blog Archive » Reality Check: More negatives of crop based ethanol http://blatantreality.com/2008/06/27/food-prices-could-increase-by-35-due-to-corn-ethanol/comment-page-1/#comment-1264 Blatant Reality » Blog Archive » Reality Check: More negatives of crop based ethanol Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:25:18 +0000 http://blatantreality.com/2008/06/27/food-prices-could-increase-by-35-due-to-corn-ethanol/#comment-1264 [...] from the comments posted on two of my posts about ethanol (seen here and here), I need to go a little more in depth about why I do not like the idea of growing our next [...] [...] from the comments posted on two of my posts about ethanol (seen here and here), I need to go a little more in depth about why I do not like the idea of growing our next [...]

]]> By: Phil Waste http://blatantreality.com/2008/06/27/food-prices-could-increase-by-35-due-to-corn-ethanol/comment-page-1/#comment-1249 Phil Waste Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:47:05 +0000 http://blatantreality.com/2008/06/27/food-prices-could-increase-by-35-due-to-corn-ethanol/#comment-1249 How much land is being used to raise tobacco? If we paid farmers to plant sugar beets instead they would make much more money. Sugar beets are eaiser to grow and process. The entire operation could be mechanized. Converting sugar to ethanol is 7 times more efficient. How much land is being used to raise tobacco? If we paid farmers to plant sugar beets instead they would make much more money. Sugar beets are eaiser to grow and process. The entire operation could be mechanized. Converting sugar to ethanol is 7 times more efficient.

]]> By: Phil Waste http://blatantreality.com/2008/06/27/food-prices-could-increase-by-35-due-to-corn-ethanol/comment-page-1/#comment-1248 Phil Waste Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:40:09 +0000 http://blatantreality.com/2008/06/27/food-prices-could-increase-by-35-due-to-corn-ethanol/#comment-1248 <p>If Ford or Chevy wants to survive, and I hope you do, why don’t you put E85 pumps in all your dealerships and advertise your flex-fueled cars which you have been making for years now?</p> <p align="left"> </p> <p>Start pushing sugar cane and sugar beet ethanol which is 7 times more efficient than ‘corn’ ethanol and it doesn’t rob our food supplies.</p> <p align="left"> </p> <p>It is time for you to face up to the truth; oil companies have screwed you worse than they have screwed us. You owe them nothing so start doing something to save your company. I’ll bet all those little FORDS that are all over Europe would sell like hot cakes right about now.</p> If Ford or Chevy wants to survive, and I hope you do, why don’t you put E85 pumps in all your dealerships and advertise your flex-fueled cars which you have been making for years now?

 

Start pushing sugar cane and sugar beet ethanol which is 7 times more efficient than ‘corn’ ethanol and it doesn’t rob our food supplies.

 

It is time for you to face up to the truth; oil companies have screwed you worse than they have screwed us. You owe them nothing so start doing something to save your company. I’ll bet all those little FORDS that are all over Europe would sell like hot cakes right about now.

]]> By: Invest this! http://blatantreality.com/2008/06/27/food-prices-could-increase-by-35-due-to-corn-ethanol/comment-page-1/#comment-1245 Invest this! Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:59:20 +0000 http://blatantreality.com/2008/06/27/food-prices-could-increase-by-35-due-to-corn-ethanol/#comment-1245 I know this post is older, so you probably won't be able to respond to this, but do you have any statistics on how much farmland would need to be used in order to produce enough sugar beets to meet our energy needs? You claimed that it wouldn't affect food supply, and I've no doubt that it's better than corn, but I'm sure that quite a bit of farmland that formerly made food would need to be replaced with sugar beets. I know this post is older, so you probably won’t be able to respond to this, but do you have any statistics on how much farmland would need to be used in order to produce enough sugar beets to meet our energy needs? You claimed that it wouldn’t affect food supply, and I’ve no doubt that it’s better than corn, but I’m sure that quite a bit of farmland that formerly made food would need to be replaced with sugar beets.

]]> By: Phil Waste http://blatantreality.com/2008/06/27/food-prices-could-increase-by-35-due-to-corn-ethanol/comment-page-1/#comment-1238 Phil Waste Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:47:25 +0000 http://blatantreality.com/2008/06/27/food-prices-could-increase-by-35-due-to-corn-ethanol/#comment-1238 <p>E85 ethanol ready cars have been produced in the US for years now but we still have no E85 pumps at our services stations. Where they do have the E85 pumps ethanol runs about $2.35 per gallon. http://www.e85fuel.com/e85101/flexfuelvehicles.php</p> <p align="left"> </p> <p>Ethanol made from sugar cane and sugar beets is 7 times more efficient than ethanol made from corn and won't affect the food supply. Sugar beets can be grown damn near everywhere while sugar cane can be grown in the southern states.</p> <p align="left"> </p> <p>You have got to stop listening to the oil companies as they have screwed everything up for years now...... The oil companies own the White House and Congress. Who in the hell do you think choose ‘CORN’ to make ethanol out of which was doomed to failure even before they began. Who do you think put a tariff on imported ethanol?</p> <p align="left"> </p> <p>Oil companies have no solutions but to drill more, true energy independence will not involve oil companies. You have got to stop listening to the oil companies as they have screwed everything up......</p> <p align="left"> </p> <p>The solution to energy independence is ethanol and E85 fuel which our cars can burn right now! It is renewable, Right Now!!!! If something comes up later fine but right now the answer is E85 ethanol.</p> <p align="left"> </p> <p>Removing the tariff from imported ethanol would give us access to cheap ethanol.</p> <p align="left"> </p> <p>You have got to stop listening to the oil companies as they have screwed everything up......</p> <p align="left"> </p> <p>The truth is available in Brazil; they have been using E85. Check it out for yourself….</p> <p align="left"> </p> <p>Don’t you find it ironic that the White House and Congress along with the oil companies still want to send more and more of our cash over to the Middle East to support our sworn enemies, the terrorists? What the hell is that all about?</p> <p align="left"> </p> <p>Ford and Chevy are taking a beating so why don't they use their heads and put E85 fuel pumps at their dealerships and push that their cars will run on 85% ethanol.</p> E85 ethanol ready cars have been produced in the US for years now but we still have no E85 pumps at our services stations. Where they do have the E85 pumps ethanol runs about $2.35 per gallon. http://www.e85fuel.com/e85101/flexfuelvehicles.php

 

Ethanol made from sugar cane and sugar beets is 7 times more efficient than ethanol made from corn and won’t affect the food supply. Sugar beets can be grown damn near everywhere while sugar cane can be grown in the southern states.

 

You have got to stop listening to the oil companies as they have screwed everything up for years now…… The oil companies own the White House and Congress. Who in the hell do you think choose ‘CORN’ to make ethanol out of which was doomed to failure even before they began. Who do you think put a tariff on imported ethanol?

 

Oil companies have no solutions but to drill more, true energy independence will not involve oil companies. You have got to stop listening to the oil companies as they have screwed everything up……

 

The solution to energy independence is ethanol and E85 fuel which our cars can burn right now! It is renewable, Right Now!!!! If something comes up later fine but right now the answer is E85 ethanol.

 

Removing the tariff from imported ethanol would give us access to cheap ethanol.

 

You have got to stop listening to the oil companies as they have screwed everything up……

 

The truth is available in Brazil; they have been using E85. Check it out for yourself….

 

Don’t you find it ironic that the White House and Congress along with the oil companies still want to send more and more of our cash over to the Middle East to support our sworn enemies, the terrorists? What the hell is that all about?

 

Ford and Chevy are taking a beating so why don’t they use their heads and put E85 fuel pumps at their dealerships and push that their cars will run on 85% ethanol.

]]> By: Invest this! http://blatantreality.com/2008/06/27/food-prices-could-increase-by-35-due-to-corn-ethanol/comment-page-1/#comment-1237 Invest this! Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:30:43 +0000 http://blatantreality.com/2008/06/27/food-prices-could-increase-by-35-due-to-corn-ethanol/#comment-1237 <p>IMO, there's nothing good about corn ethanol. It really only amounts to political pandering. What needs to be done, is more research on cellulose ethanol.</p> IMO, there’s nothing good about corn ethanol. It really only amounts to political pandering. What needs to be done, is more research on cellulose ethanol.

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