Thread: Nope, the right wing says this won't work.
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Default Nope, the right wing says this won't work.
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On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:59:42 -0700, jps wrote:


Let's talk about corn. Brazil is kicking our ass by growing sugar
cane and we invested in corn. Could have been neck and neck with
Brazil if we'd have invested in switchgrass or something that didn't
necessarily benefit the farmer constituents of some thick headed
congressmen.

We grow corn because that is what is geographically expedient. There
are only a few places in the US that sugar will grow and the
environmentalists are shutting that down. (for good reason IMHO but
still true)

If they had environmentalists in Brazil, they would shut that down
too. Draining wet lands and burning the rain forest to grow sugar is
not particularly ecologically sound.
Global warming? ... anyone? ... anyone? ... Bueller?

Switch grass sounds great until you actually look at the economics of
making fuel out of it.

I wonder if the switchgrass has been studied enough to not be a threat
to us, like Kudzu?
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