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To: LindyBill who wrote (420607)	4/7/2011 6:48:45 PM
From: Ish	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) of 793917

<<If you divert cropland to energy use, you can't grow food on it. Simply supply/demand problem, Ish.>> What you don't understand is 99% of the corn grown in the US you can't eat. Ok, you could swallow it whole like pills but tomorrow you'd see it whole in the toilet. It gets processed and you get distiller's grain that feeds livestock and corn starch which we do eat and is bad for us. Corn starch is used in making ethanol. It's also used in spark plug insulation, dry wall, paint, paper and about 50 other things. Food prices are all foods. They stop irrigation because of some minnow in California and food prices go up. Not a thing to do with corn or ethanol. They don't make ethanol out of avacodos or lettuce but the food prices go up. You blame ethanol. Weather is a big deal. We lost 10 bushel an acre on corn last year. That's 600 million bushels of corn from the US supply. Might be we should take the people from Hawaii and move them to Minnesota so we could plant Hawaii and get 3 crops a year.

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