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Letter writer John Wells ignores the fact that most of the farm land that is now growing corn for ethanol was previously growing corn and wheat suitable for human consumption. This has given cause for higher food costs across the board.
It is also now becoming clear that the process of producing ethanol is causing as much or more pollution as the petrol industry does.
MARK SMITH
Grand Junction
10 Responses to “Land for ethanol could be used for food crops”
Posted May 2nd, 2008 at 12:07 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
As previously stated in another post, the only real solution is LESS PEOPLE. But that would not be PC, right?
Ethanol is just a way to make the PC crowd feel good, which is all they care about, till they flit off to some new agenda.
Posted May 2nd, 2008 at 1:27 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
grandmasix is moving dangerously close to the beliefs found in the NAZI doctrine of “lebensraum”, and also toward an “ultimate solution” type of thinking.
Perhaps she would care to enlighten us as to how she would control the population. Who is to live and who to perish, who is to reproduce and who is not to reproduce? Not only “who”, but what standards would she, or anyone else for that matter, use to make such a determination?
Posted May 2nd, 2008 at 1:29 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Go granny…go granny…GO! Remember that classic hit? You bet yer boots, sister, there will soon be a lot LESS PEOPLE…no matter if it’s PC, AC or DC. It’ll be courtesy of desertification, dried-up lakes and aquifers and snow packs, world food scarcity and starvation, infectious diseases, resource wars, air pollution, or rising seas. Pick your poison….or, better yet, take some positive action to improve that magnificent world which surrounds you.
Posted May 2nd, 2008 at 1:38 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
RL,
If you wanted input into the selection process, you should have made yourself available when we had our international conference. We already have the list (short). Too bad, So sad.
Chancho is right, it is not a matter of if, or how, but when, and who.
Posted May 2nd, 2008 at 1:51 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Please make sure I’m sitting in one of the first “Hummers to Heaven” when it all goes down. You might have to pry my cold dead fingers from my Prius, however.
Posted May 2nd, 2008 at 2:13 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Chancho,
Your name is way up there in the C’s which without question is before L.
I guess it was done alphabetically.
For your security, you will be making the trip in the latest version of the Up-armoured Hummer, equipped with the latest horn which makes a sound close to OOH RAH, and your own personal 50 caliber “Ma-Duce”. Let’s Roll!
Posted May 2nd, 2008 at 9:45 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Hey, Mark Smith. Are you the Mark Smith that is the director of IPAMS? For the uninitiated, that stands for Independent Petroleum Association of the Mountain States, or so.
Posted May 2nd, 2008 at 10:01 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Be careful, dc. You used his conference room at noon today.
Posted May 3rd, 2008 at 6:23 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
Just seeking information, not quarreling with the comments. Obviously not the same guy.
Posted May 3rd, 2008 at 6:28 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
in fact, I tend to agree that corn-based ethanol is not a good thing.
I am heading for the hills today. Hasta la vista, ya’ll.
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