Socialist Programs and Consequences :: JudgeRight

Ethanol; the answer to the smog caused by the enormous American appetite for fossil fuels, right? The answer to the oil addiction which feeds money into the hands that want to kill us, right? Apparently not. Ethanol is made from corn, primarily. A lot of corn. Two acres of corn per average tank full. So the price of corn has been climbing steadily since the ethanol program began. What other markets are affected by the rise in corn markets? Well, there's the livestock and meat industry. That's rather obvious because we feed all that livestock a lot of corn. Higher corn prices mean higher meat prices. Where is all this corn coming from? Since corn is more profitable, farmers are turning under other crops like wheat, barley, soybean, etc., to plant more corn. Now we're experiencing a shortage of wheat. Last week, wheat prices shot up 200% taking a 50lb. bag of wheat flour from $15.00 to $45.00 almost overnight.

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