[Winona Online Democracy]
I'm not familiar with the speaker John mentioned, but I heard an interesting
spot on WI Public Radio last week on this topic. The guest was talking
about how the use of corn and other agricultural crops being converted to
auto fuel (e.g. ethanol) will affect the economy. Basically he was saying
that when it becomes a better deal to sell those crops to fuel producers it
will drive up the price of food due to competition for the food supply.
An aside was that this speaker advocated develpment of "plug in" vehicle
technology to charge batteries with wind energy and to eliminate our
dependency on oil and clean up our air in the process.
What do others know about these issues? I'm thinking that this relates
locally to our recent interest in wind power and our state's strong
agricultural interests as well.
Kathy Seifert
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Subject: [Winona] Lecture at Winona County Gov't Center
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Speaking about projects related to petroleum (Winona's wish list for road
improvements):
I ran across a web site announcing a lecture this Wednesday, January 18,
at the County Government Center, 177 Main Street at 7pm by the author of
a film to be shown at WSU this weekend. The film is about oil and suburban
development and the lecture is about oil and agriculture.
I haven't seen anything in the local media yet. The web site:
http://resourceinsights.blogspot.com/2004/11/faith-based-economics-peak-oil-and.html
John N. Finn
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