Ethanol: the cruel alternate energy hoax

The huge corporate American farmers are making a killing (literally) from the huge run up in the price of grain products due to corn based Ethanol production. This Ethanol hoax on the American people is running up the cost of most food products we buy and the farm products are even still being subsidized by your own tax dollars.

Corn Ethanol certainly is not going to lower your gas prices or solve any energy crises. Your politicians have no guts to bring about any real solution to the energy problem so they try to appease gullible American people with junk science nonsense of an Ethanol solution while they fill their own pockets with contributions from special interest groups. Never mind that their ethanol polices will bring hunger and starvation to people in third world countries that depend on low cost grains for their very survival. Food stocks are now so low worldwide that any major crop failure could bring about famine. Should the American people allow these insane polices to continue?

Frankly, all who are helping to foster this Ethanol hoax richly deserve my Demented Delusional of Dumb Club of the week award for creating a world crises through stupidity or greed.

The ethanol hoax

Ethanol production has driven up the prices of corn-fed livestock, such as beef, chicken and dairy products, and products made from corn, such as cereals. As a result of higher demand for corn, other grain prices, such as soybean and wheat, have risen dramatically. The fact that the U.S. is the world’s largest grain producer and exporter means that the ethanol-induced higher grain prices will have a worldwide impact on food prices.

It’s easy to understand how the public, looking for cheaper gasoline, can be taken in by the call for increased ethanol usage. But politicians, corn farmers and ethanol producers know they are running a cruel hoax on the American consumer. They are in it for the money. The top leader in the ethanol hoax is Archer Daniels Midland, the country’s largest producer of ethanol. Ethanol producers and the farm lobby have pressured farm-state congressmen into believing that it would be political suicide if they didn’t support subsidized ethanol production. That’s the stick. Campaign contributions play the role of the carrot.