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Politics : Rat's Nest - Chronicles of Collapse

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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (7859)6/15/2008 12:59:38 PM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (1) of 24212
 
Let's end the biofuel mandates and subsidies -- currently eating up around $13 billion per year in taxpayer cash -- and invest the savings in grain storage and the infrastructure required to really revive local and regional food production.

Well.. I agree with halting the mandates for ethanol production from grains, and I certainly agree with encouraging reviving food production, but my sense is that there is no current lack of grain storage capacity.

In fact, it's being reported that our wheat reserves are quickly becoming depleted, which should mean there is more than adequate grain storage available:

boingboing.net

minneapolisfed.org

Hawk
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