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More Bad News for the Anti-Ethanol Crowd

The inflation we are experiencing now worldwide has more to do with the increase of Oil from $60 a barrel to $145 a barrel over the last 3 years. Every increase in diesel price affects the costs of of every product transported by it. So that means everything transported by truck, train, and ship, i.e. all food, all consumer products, all parts have become more expensive BECAUSE OF OIL PRICES.

When most Americans think about corn they think about sweet eating corn-on-the-cob. But that is not what commodity corn is at all. Commodity corn is a totally different variety, that is hard and not sweet and not eatible off the cob. Commodity corn is used to make corn sweetners and animal feed. Yes this corn is used to make ethanol also, IT IS NOT A FOOD CORN. Increased demand for ethanol did not cause the spike in corn prices, IT WAS OIL PRICES. It takes alot of fertilizer to grow commodity corn and fertilizer is a oil product. As the oil prices have risen so has fertilizer prices.

So who has been putting forth these stories that Ethanol is evil and going to cause people around the world to starve, FOLLOW THE MONEY. Oil companies do not control or own ethanol companies, mostly farmers do. Oil companies have billions to loose if Americans start to drive on E85 or 100%biodiesel in any meaningful way. They are funding millions to slow the manufacture of higher efficiency engines, and this campaign to paint ethanol as evil is a marketing ploy that environmentalist have been suckered to believing hook, line and sinker to the detriment of their own beliefs.

Ethanol is not evil, and increased biodiesel production would actually lower inflation because it is a diesel replacement.

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