There are many plants beside corn that could provide the starch for the beer to make ethanol, however, our politicians, in a burst of stupidity decided only to subsidize ethanol made with corn. They refuse to eliminate price supports for sugar growers and are doing all they can to ruin any attempt to ween America off oil. This is not a republican or democrat issue. Its an issue of who gives more money to political parties. If the old saying, "fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." holds true, America is becoming a nation held hostage by its own corporate success.
john ----- Original Message ---- From: John S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Eric W Rudd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [email protected] Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 2:10:33 PM Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Re: Putting the blame on anything and everything... Corn does not make up a large part of a dairy cows diet and can easily be replaced by any other starchy foods. The fact that fuel ethanol must be made from corn and sugar will eventually cause some problems with corn and sugar prices. The reason milk costs so much is because of massive mismanagement of the agriculture department. I don't think they will even try to deny it. In 1987 it cost a dairy farmer 12.02 cents to produce 12.00 worth of milk. This caused a huge number of dairy farms to go under. In the 90's they started using BGH (Bovine Growth Hormone) at all the big dairy farms and it causes cows to produce immense amounts of milk but there's a minor drawback, it also causes mastitis. (can you say "Got puss") Tons of antibiotics wiped out mom and pop that had tried to keep up in dairy farms. Those that could sold dairy cows for beef. Now 90 some percent of farms are corporate owned and cows are not being replaced at the rate they die off or retire from milking. Can you say, "price increase". The easy way to deal with it is to stop drinking milk from the wrong animals tit. Or buy a cow. For $3.00 a gallon I can goats milk. Your all welcome to blame whoever you like, but those of you in the midwest already know that most big farms are owned by corporate america and the small farmer is about gone. john ----- Original Message ---- From: Eric W Rudd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 12:53:34 PM Subject: RE: [QUAD-L] Re: Putting the blame on anything and everything... The higher milk cost is due to the higher demand put forth by ethanol, which is made from corn, which is used by cows. Locally, our Hucks station has the cheapest price for milk. LOL Eric W Rudd [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Bill_J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 8:41 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [QUAD-L] Re: Putting the blame on anything and everything... Posted for Lori. No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. http://sims.yahoo.com/
