Gold In Those Corn Fields (CBS News)

[sunwarz]

Feed the animals and the people first!

[gwk78]

ITS VERY SIMPLE. Ethanol cycle is already using CO2 that is in the cycle.

Corn uses CO2 in photosynthesis to grow. > corn is used to make ethanol. > burning ethanol releases CO2. Its a cycle, very simple. Ethanol from corn is NOT the most efficient. Sugar Cane and Switch Grass have the closest ratio of "energy needed to produce" to "actual useable energry produced"

YOU WILL NEVER GET MORE ENERGY FROM A SYSTEM THAN YOU PUT INTO THE SYSTEM. The gap can be narrowed with efficient processes.

[beast6228]

Ethanol...the shit that ruins gas mileage because it's added into gasoline. They need to either make pure ethanol fuel or make vehicles that run purely on ethanol.

[hellavadeal]

What about people feed? Are any farmers growing that. The corn is differant Geneticly.

[mathewjohn5174]

CBS is part of the illuminati. They want to jack up food prices to depopulate the world.

[BlueCross77]

i've been extremely scared of corn fields every since a saw Jeepers Creepers lol

[pat637]

your mom who feeds you.

[joeystubes]

raising our food prices it is better to use sugar beets or sugar cane

[blur880]

Of course it is. You are right. However, farmers are greedy, so they support a horrible energy idea like corn ethanol. It is going to double air pollution, and raise food prices. That is why all scientists are against it, for the most part.

[joeystubes]

i concur

[kdwormy]

If ethanol is ever established as a next generation private transportation fuel you know where the moneys gunna be at.

[CherrySurge]

too bad ethanol still has to be mixed with gasoline

[bilpayne]

What about the damage it will do to the water supply

in dry years could turn in to another dust bole with

that much land plowed up and another problem

will be the run off in the lower Mississippi valley

and wet lands

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[volumptuous]

Ethanol is a distraction from the real problem of using dirty fuels that pollute the shit out of this planet.

Don't believe the corn-starched hype!

[CANFARMER]

Making Ethanol from corn is actually one of the least efficiant ways to produce Ethanol. Sugar Cane is the best followed by Switch Grass. Not too mention that the oil companys could drop the price of oil and force every Ethanol plant out of business. I hear this at every meeting I go too. Maybe thats why I havn't bought shares into a plant. And i'm a farmer supposed to buy into ethanol.

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[freesk8]

Exactly!!! Corporate welfare should be eliminated, especially farm subsidies. The ethanol subsidies distort the market just as much, creating, as this video shows, higher prices for food. Get the government out of the marketplace! It cuases more harm than good.

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[greyflcn]

Brazil shows how crappy ethanol can be with even the best feedstocks. Brazil gets less than 14% of it's fuel from ethanol greyfalcon. net/ brazil.png And while Diesel is a good step forward, Thats only because of it's 41% more fuel effecient than gasoline. A Diesel VW Jetta is comprable to a Prius. You want the REAL Green cars of the future, right now? Go electric. And fill up for only 3 cent per mile. greyfalcon. net/ electriccars.png greyfalcon. net/ electriccars2.png

[marroonmantaray]

god forbid meat prices go up and people are forced to eat green foods that would be rediculous

[aznboi789]

making ethanol i simple, you can do it at home, but he machine in the corn field was freaking amazing

[poopds]

that made me want roasted corn.

[eduardelric]

this is bad poor people in south america will die like honduras or guatemala

[penbongs]

dot corn just about sums it up

[SchoolhouseTechno]

Farming is awful...cause for one place to be doing good with their prices somewhere else has to be doing bad. My family lives in a farming town, and I am in college now, but the times when prices for wheat and barley were highest were times when other places had droughts resulting in less crops in the market therefore higher prices.

I guess when you think about it though it's how it is in any industry...

[Boehmer14]

Ethanol is no good - at least not anymore. Driving up everything in cost for something that is supposedly a better altnerative energy which in reality its not...more fuel is used to produce ethanol period than in regular gas. Plus now we have this effect on everything else. No thanks.

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[uriah24]

I got the word 3 years ago to invest in corn/ethanol production. I didnt take the advice and feel like an asshole.

[mrstickball]

Amazingly enough , none of these reports mention the fact that you have about 17 pounds of corn left over once the ethanol processing is done. Each bushel is 55lbs , so you still have grain left that can be fed to animals or processed into food.

[jakeyjakey]

corn is one of the WORST ways to produce ethanol. I think it requires ,9 gallons of gas for every 1.2 gallons of ethanol produced. the brazilian method is much btter

[handlem55]

Farmers work hard everyday its time they got a real reward for their work

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[David01132]

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[jakeb6b]

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[robinpineapple]

nows a good time to be a farmer huh?

[LinuxRex2]

Why not import ethanol from Brazil (the largest ethanol producer in world) which is able to produce it much cheaper? Then the price of meat would not increase...we have higher taxes for Ethanol coming from Brazil than oil being imported from rouge states which indirectly support terrorism (Saudi Arabia, Iran,etc). Common sense...no?

[beatpulp]

Your "common sense", is common ignorance!!!

The whole purpose for looking for alternative fuel choices is to get away from dependences on foreign sources. Why pry our balls from one country's hands, only to place them is another's?

[beatpulp]

America produces, creates, and manufactures, very little any more. Almost all the industries and jobs which produce anything of real substance have gone the way of NAFTA and GAFTA, leaving us with meaningless service jobs. Any that are still left, are looking for a way out of this country.

America has an artificial economy, with artificially inflated profits. When this house of cards collapses, we will all be sorry, but the rich, will still be rich!!

[argaen21]

Because the US government tries to protect american farmers by putting those huge ass tariffs on sugar cane made ethanol from Brazil. Which is the most idiotic thing ever.

[beatpulp]

Aside form that, the whole "ethanol as an alternative fuel source" is a big lie! Do the research. Ethanol has a negative net energy value, meaning it takes more energy to produce it, than it produces.

Secondly, if it were not for being highly government subsidized, it would not be produced in the quantity it is. The Feds are buying your loyalty and devotion with your own money!

But, for now, let the farmers make money while they can! They have been getting screwed for a long time!!

[dkelroy]

Too bad that ethanol actually POLLUTES more than fossil fuels!! There must be a better way. Plus, with the increased cost of corn, ethanol actually is no longer as cost effective to produce. Who knows—here today and gone tomorrow, maybe.

[robdynn]

Where do you get your info? ethanol may have more ppm as far as expectorants go, but it is not as volitole as fossil fuel

[argaen21]

Home grown ethanol can play a supporting role to help ease the economic burdens of switching off from fossil fuels to future technological energies. It is very important. Pollution is going to happen for a long time, but that transitional affect on the world economies can be slowed by the support of ethanol which will actually help to speed up the timetable for getting rid of fossil fuels altogether.

[cancub]

where are you getting these figures from? does the ethanol eat potato chips and throw the bag in a field or something because i've yet to see proof of ethanol fuels like E85 being a greater pollutant than fossil fuels

[NjRetard13]

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[modestaretaloger]

Good stuff.

[RustyCyler]

Korn rules

[Ontus]

Yeah.. Great band!

[EAK2006]

YEAH!!!!

[MusicCube]

first comment.. but it has almost 24000 views..

[bloggermouth]

Turning food into fuel for our cars. That is just about the most myopic plan ever. Ethanol still churns out CO2. The internal combustion engine should be a museum piece that will be found in the "Horribly Inefficient Engineering" wing. Time to go electric.

[psychomelody]

What we need to do is get tobacco farmers to start growing corn.

[Blink182vsSum41]

cool

[PLRODARTE]

Good for them.

[MastaRikta]

Look, it's great that America is finally pursuing the production and use of a renewable fuel in cars, it really is. However, the amount of fossil fuels burned in the production ethanol fuel from corn is equal to, if not greater than, that which is burned by driving a regular, gasoline car. I hate to be so cynical but... It seems to good to be true, and... Well, it is.

[onenastylilboy]

I love corn.

[AZNGoSu]

cant we just eat it =/

[espguitarist]

too bad ethanol by corn is a complete waste. it actually produces more pollution overall.

[toma43210]

thats all fine and dandy but its a sin to burn food. i guess thats ok noboyd believes in God anymore anyway.:-))

[HIjmp]

FIRST!

[petermaxlove]

lol teh c0rn

[randomjunglist]

what about using that land to produce food? so stupid.

[xojoe]

starve the world so u can drive

[sounds4yall]

So!

[aznboyken8000]

woo im the first comment!

[someguy420]

didnt they find out that wide use of ethanol would lead to unsafe levels of ozone?

[alansmith717]

Ethanol is the most retarded thing ever, IT MAKES MORE CARBON DIOXIDE TO PRODUCE ETHANOL FOR A CAR THAN IT DOES TO DRIVE A CAR ON OIL. Especially when you use corn.... We're fucked, and retarded... Oh look, we could have an air car... (youtube "The Air Car")

but we don't care..

[patricio6666]

send the gold my way bro

[wisedup]

so when they all get thru 'passing the cost on' we'll end up with high gas prices and food prices...yawn..

[krazysexykule]

So wait... Ethinol is supposed to save us money somewhat by saving oil, but in reality if the prices of everything go up, are we really saving any money?

[guitar2adam]

i'm from indiana, and all we have are corn and soy beans.....so this looks like good news for my state.

[justinn600]

rather pay high gas price than high price for EVERYTHING at the grocery store AND resteraunts. smart.

I am happy for the grain farmers that have been barely breaking even for years.

[SunsetSix]

It won't be long before Cargill figures out a way to take this money out of the pockets of the U.S. Farmer.

In the last 15 years Cargill et. al. have averaged 10% Return on Investment. Farmers, over the same 15 years have averaged less than 2% ROI.

[maskedbob]

ethanol rocks :)