Ethanol, corn, switchgrass, and sugar cane

The U.S. government is requiring ethanol to be mixed with gasoline. Traditionally ethanol has been made with corn. Now some nations (Brazil) are using sugar cane to make ethanol. Now advocates are urging the use of switchgrass to make fuel (ethanol). The problem with using an agricultural product to make or supplement fuel, it that it takes farm land out of the food supply chain. Thus causing the price of agricultural products and live stock to rise. Meaning while the cost of fuel is rising so is the price of the food on your table. While we are sacrificing our farm land to produce fuel, we are leaving in the ground and offshore 400 year supply of oil untouched. This is because the environmentalist, the Democratic Party, and stupid Republicans, all are allowing this nonsense to continue.

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[todaystechworld]

Hey, thanks for posting this video! It helped a lot with a science project I was doing! It was just the video I was looking for!

[PropagandaBuster]

@todaystechworld - You are welcomed. You may also want to view my latest video: "Rising food prices the real reason unreported by the news media." I discuss ethanol in this video also.

[slingblade65]

One station nearby sells the ethanol for Flex Fuel vehicles that's cheaper than conventional gas.

Now we're well on our way to our independence from foreign oil and BOMBING EVERY FUCKING TOWEL HEAD IN THE MIDDLE EAST !!!

[PropagandaBuster]

Please be nice.

[attie3]

can we buy sugar from brazil?

[PropagandaBuster]

I have no idea. But I would think they use their sugar to produce their ethanol.

[cdowell1976]

With all of the unused arable land in the U.S. right now, switchgrass can easily be cultivated almost anywhere w/o resorting to taking space away from farms & driving up the cost of our food supply. So no, it's not (as you so elequently put) "stupid".

[saladdogger]

Oil company's wouldn't tell lies would they?

[monsterrain1000]

Food costs go up with the price of oil. Wonder what helps keep fuel prices lower? COMPETITION like biofuels!. We have a total of 3% of the worlds supply of oil and use 25%. This trainable has some trouble with numbers I guess. Hey dubass, we dont grow sugercane across america for fuel, your thinking of south America.

[Beachcrib]

In real life .. This makes no sense .. Food Goes rotten in trucks .. We are able to grow more food then needed . As long as we (with gov help) pay for it. Ethanol from swithgrass is a far better choice then what is going on now. Plus .. You can make it at home .. From damn near anything. Fun for the whole family . This rant really has no place . Blanket statements suck

[Mulakataan]

india anyone??? everyone in the villages of northern india grow trailors full of sugarcane every season

[Submanca]

There are a few mistakes in your argument. One using your analogy if there is 100 acres on land probably only 50 of it is actually used. 50 of it is not good enough to grow major crops but is quite adequate to grow grass. In fact only about 25% of that is corn. Which is almost half of the worlds production of corn. By giving farmers another crop to grow that can be grown on ground that can't grow corn will just increase how much farmers make or a few less starving farmers.

[Submanca]

Yes we can buy sugar from Brazil. Just because they they make ethanol from sugarcane and Brazil has imported very little oil for the last 20 years. Oh yes I didn't remember to say that their economy is booming.

[regcer]

if we are so conserned about price of corn going up then stop buying oversized v8s. Most people are drivng in big trucks by themselves. A 4 cylinder car is good enough to carry 5 people around town efficiently.

[regcer]

@slingblade65 Theres no need to bring rasism into this. People in the middle east have contributed even more to society as we americans have so far. Also you need %130 more ethanol to create the amount of power regular gas makes. So if you loke at it the way for every gallon of ethanol you buy your only getting 70 percent of a gallons worth of gas.

[blackbone88]

have a cry about it, oh wait you are, on valuable youtube time haha price of time goes up