Ok,  I will be the first to admit this is a major rant for me.  Everyone is talking about how Ethanol fuel will lessen our oil needs.  But has anyone really thought this out?

 

Have you noticed the price of milk, eggs and beef have risen the last few weeks?  It's because famers are switching their crops to corn now that big oil has promised to make a lot more Ethanol fuel.   This is a bad thing.  Big oil backed by the goverment pays more for corn than food producers.  Corn is used as animal feed at most farms.  Having to compete with big oil to buy feed drives up food prices.

Also more famers will switch to planting corn now,  leaving less land to plant wheat and other badly needed crops.

 

Not only will the cost of food far outweigh the saveings we may see at the pump but this also means many in under develped contries will not recive crops in aid.  Which means children will starve. 

 

All so we can save a dime or so at the pump.