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30% higher corn prices with other crops rising by 20%, according to the National Academy of Sciences.
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Growing more corn for ethanol causes increased amounts of water pollutants from U.S. farms
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Expect more fertilizer use when fertilizer costs are soaring
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More summer smog
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E15 erodes older car engines, gas pumps, storage tanks and pipelines.
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Small refiners will suffer and some will go out of business allowing Elizabeth Warren to moan about the concentration of "Big Oil".
To make corn oil, you have to use oil. Corn is subsidized heavily in the us. Tax payers pay for corn to be cheaper. Without subsidized corn, corn oil would not be anywhere near price competitive. And it sucks. You get fewer miles per gallon.
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 1 year ago
I used to think these people were evil, that they must realize that what they're proposing to do is going to harm people.
Now I'm starting to think they're just that grossly incompetent. They're actively harming not just the people, but their own continued ability to govern at this point. The only way they're pursuing policies this actively harmful to their own interests is if they're all idiots with no concept of what they're actually doing.
admin@exploding-heads.com 1 year ago
Plus a healthy dose of arrogance - thinking they can fool all the people all the time
squashkin@wolfballs.com 1 year ago
there's the ignorant and the malicious leading them I think
@kapow