The road to hell...
...is paved with good intentions.
Or so the old story goes.
This isn't news to those who have been paying attention - the
price of a can of corn is up. The price of milk is up, the price of beef and pork and chicken are all up. The price of
tortillas is up. Why? Because they are primarily fed by or made from corn, and if you haven't noticed, over 50% of this year's corn crop went to producing (dum dum DUMMMMM) -
Ethanol. Pretty much the entirety of the US is now on the 90/10 gasoline/ethanol blend, which in addition to reducing gas mileage, also causes more problems for automobile engines. Why? Because ethanol is caustic and eats away at the fuel lines, producing materials to clog the valves and the fuel injectors.
The end result's been a nightmare. Far from "reducing" the dependency on foreign energy, all Ethanol production is doing is speeding up inflation and raising the price of basic dietary staples. What's worse, the production of Ethanol has yet to produce an energy "profit" from the oil and coal burned in its production, and worldwide, rainforests and other arable land are being burned to produce the "biofuel" plants.
It's a sad day when, in the cause of environmentalism, we harm the environment far worse than we otherwise would.
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