Re: gas price game

Posted by Joe Shmoe on May 04, 2007 at 08:15:40 from (65.151.85.159):

In Reply to: Re: gas price game posted by RustyFarmall on May 03, 2007 at 06:51:13:

Maybe the fellas that belive 3 bucks is cheap, should try planting crops with gasoline tractors, and see how much of a bite it takes out of their operating expence. If they ever considered to legalize whiskey making for the average Joe farmer, we would be able to reduce the amount of oil consumption. Around here, there is Ethanol plants trying to pop up in every corner land plot they can get ahold of. Then the surrounding land owners file lawsuits to block them from building such plants to actually help out. Now the other side of the card is how much ethanol will drive up the price of corn per bushel. For the farmers that have to buy feed will pay more, due to the price of corn going up for demand to produce fuel. Food prices can go up as well. I think in the long run, cash crop farming will eventually pay off, but the fellas that raise their own crops to feed their animals, and feed us, but surely, in the future, there can be a special program that farmers can enroll into and lock in a price, contract feed orders, Im not sure how it can work. But I know what we are doing now, isnt gonna fly for long, we will eventually run out of money to even buy fuel for the brand new car/truck/farm tractor to even produce the crop to feed us and our livestock, let alone try to maintain a household with a family to feed. Take a drive in the future,, in the country sides where farms used to flourish, now deserted cause they cant afford to work for a living. Whiskey,, or ethanol, can be a solution, for our fuel problems, but if not careful in how its done, it will be just like gasoline, 5 dollars a gallon. Another note for ethanol production,, the farmers should have the reighns to control the price, after all, we grow the corn in our fields, instead of some fat cat rich person sitting behind a desk, thats getting rich off of gasoline prices. Would that be putting money back in our pockets, or where would it go?

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