



I. AAA: Stop This E15 Nonsense



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II. EPA: We Don't Care


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Sources: AAA, The Detroit News

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RE: We sure are stupid.
By epobirs on 12/2/2012 2:56:13 AM , Rating: 1
Gee, and what do you suppose increasing the cost of livestock feed does to the cost of products made from that livestock? Making cattle farmers compete with energy production for corn is a profoundly stupid idea.

RE: We sure are stupid.


An illiterate bunch of fools here.

RE: We sure are stupid.
An illiterate bunch of fools here.


RE: We sure are stupid.
By JediJeb on 12/3/2012 4:44:17 PM , Rating: 2

From someone who has been in farming I can say that most of the public is uninformed on this. If you raise the price of corn(or any other feed source for animals)it does not directly raise the price of meat in the store. If farmers begin to sell less cattle then the price of meat in the store will rise because of short supply, but the first thing that happens is that the cattle farmers make less money because one of their consumables has increased in price. What the public does not know is that a farmer does not go to the slaughter house and tell them "here is my animal, I want $x for it." Farmers go to the slaughter house and the slaughter house tells the farmer "I will giver you $x for your animal" and the farmer is just stuck with that price. Sure the farmer can refuse to sell the animal, but it is at its current peak of age and weight, and for the farmer to keep it longer only means he has to feed it more until he can sell it and that only means he will make less and less for it the longer he keeps it. Until the farmer runs out of money and has to begin to reduce his herd size, the price of meat in the store will remain the same.

The part in the article that stands out as most true is that ADM and ConAgra are the ones making out like bandits from this and is why they are the most vocal in support of the mandate. They have the huge storage facilities and will buy up the grain from the farmers when it is at lower prices then hold and sell when the ethanol producers can pay higher prices. Most farms can not afford to store a whole years worth of grain production and wait to sell at the optimal prices. From what I have heard already this year from the ones renting my fathers farm to grow corn and soybeans the prices fell during the harvest season, at least $1 per bushel (about 15%) just during the week they were harvesting there. This mandate will lead to not just car owners being screwed on their warranties, but also farmers being screwed because the groups like ADM and ConAgra will be the ones soaking up the revenues from any subsidies, which just ends up screwing the public as a whole. Be sure to place the blame where it belongs, with EPA and the middlemen of agriculture, the farmers here end up being innocent bystanders just like the car owners do.

