I love cow meat. When God invented beef he was having a great day, let me tell you. I love rare beef, it is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. But I don't love it enough to sell a kidney to purchase it, and that's the going rate these days.
I don't know why we cannot call the E-85 experiment quits and go back to using corn to feed the cows. I don't believe for one minute that ethanol has anything to do with the current drop in fuel prices. The one and only reason that oil is dropping is because of fracking. Saudi Arabia cannot compete with us when it comes to all of the different energy resources that we have. Fracking makes sense for us at the moment because oil has been driven to stupids heights. When the price of oil becomes reasonable again (with no thanks to B.O. of course) than fracking will probably slow down. Not that the oil will go bad of course. We have it, and knowing that we do should stop some of those countries that hate us from being able to hold us hostage again.
It's not as if they can start growing wheat or anything like that. As Sam Kennison pointed out it was sand. In a thousand years it will still be sand.
Do you remember how much extra money OPEC had in the eighties? That's right-not much. They didn't have anything extra to give away to the people that hate us and would do us harm. What does that tell you?
A solution of sorts was ethanol. It hasn't been much help for many reasons. Not the least of which is that if you do run ethanol in your vehicle, you must run a tank of premium pretty regularly, so what have you saved? Nothing, that's what.
A friend of mine works for the railroad. every week he is driving a train of corn to an ethanol plant. That same corn that could be making beef is going toward a substandard fuel that is not cost efficient to use. How dumb is that?
Instead of forcing ethanol on us, how about if we drill our own oil? Fracking has proven that it works-just look at the pumps right now. Think about it, you'll thank me later.
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