On Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:25:43 -0400, BAR wrote:

Wayne.B wrote:
On Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:19:24 -0500, Richard Casady
wrote:

Decent weed has gone from 150 bucks a pound to 5000.

I thought you guys were growing corn out there in Iowa.

What's a bushel of corn go for these days? It is my understanding it
takes two gallons of diesel fuel to make a gallon of ethanol.

Not that much Diesel, I saw a 40 row planter just the other day, for
example. The ammonia fertilizer is made from natural gas. No phosphate
in Iowa, stuff comes in on Diesel power. Alcohol is subsidized.

It is nuts to burn food in a hungry world.

Your fact is wrong, but if you think it is a bad idea, you are right.

Casady