Walk For Liberty Day 126 - Federal Government Corn Subsidies and Corn Ethanol Fuels Are Both Dead Wrong For the Environment and the Economy - Gasoline Is MUCH BETTER For the Environment and the Economy Than Ethanol - Learn Why the Corn Lobby Sucks

[Iemota21]

The ethanol case is true.. sad to say but at the same time solar power is subsudized and is also a viable option that the government supports.. They have a 25 year life and pay for themselves in most climates in 4 years so it is a 5X increase the government supports.. The cold hard facts are we cant keep fighting wars for fuel...

[soldierBJC]

u suck

[farmer2568]

Another whack job that believes old information. The hemp part proved it. he must be high all the time. Believes what Cornell Pimmentohead says is fact- Old stats from the 80's.

[superdaveman06]

How much money does this guy have invested in oil ? All he is doing is spreading oil industry propaganda. And if he actually read the energy policy that was signed, there is a limit on how much ethanol will be made from corn.

[jeffcarruthers]

i think you were outnumbered on this topic, do you think ethanol is a good idea and if so, do you benefit from it financially? Also, which comment do you think is false? If it was a good product, why would they put a limit on it? And if I know this guy, he has no money invested in oil, whereas I think you have a financial interest in ethonal, either directly or indirectly.

[superdaveman06]

I have no money invested in ethanol or corn. Ethanol is just the such a clean burning fuel. I don't argue that making lots of ethanol from corn is great. At one time corn would rot in storage because it wasn't all being used. There is much better things to make ethanol out of that won't affect our food supply. In the video he mentions all our tax dollars spent on ethanol, but how much tax dollars and lives are spent in the Middle East becuase we need their oil ?

[blur880]

Actually he is in no way in the oil industries pocket.  Get your facts straight. Most environmentalists and scientists had ethanol. In fact, a lot of oil companies support and advocate ethanol mandates!

[txballoonman]

The ethanol subsidy is partly to blame for "the world-wide food shortage" we've heard about on the news. Also, livestock eat corn to fatten-up for beef, pork, etc. Higher corn prices cause higher meat prices. Ethanol can't be piped for distances, so it uses fuel in trucks to transport the ethanol.

There are many reasons all government subsidies are foolish economically.

[gemhunter99]

Wife grew up in NY state, fond memories of wheat fields but upon returning for a visit last year she found all the fields planted with corn.

[norriscj]

I believe sugar cane produces more efficient ethanol that corn. I'm not quite sure where it compares to hemp though.

[TimberGeek]

Hemp has one big drawback and we should thank the federal government for erradicating it from the countryside. When it cross pollinates with marijuana it kills the potency of your pot. So by burning all the old wild hemp fields in the name of the war on drugs our government has increased the agricultural range of high grade marijuana.

Who says they never support the local economy. ;)

[TimberGeek]

Yup LDL is the 'bad' form. That's some title. ;-D

Hemp is a very choice good because it's multi-use and non-depleating to the soil (you didn't even cover the feritizer end of the problem). Hemp seeds produce high protein seed cake and oil (biodiesel). Stalks produce fiber, hard hurds (for a variety of uses including coking) and cellulose that digests easily to alchohol. So in the extreme case you've got clothes, food, diesel, gas and coal all from a plant that grows like a weed.