Muscatine

Ya better be quiet about that nedl, the oil companies are going to start spiking your water with beano!

Sorry I might be a little behind here, but I obviously don't have the time to spend at the computer that some of you people do.

We are burning our food grains to make fuel. Obviously, that isn't working out so well. It not only is leading to higher food prices by itself, but shortages as well. All those responsible for putting that asinine idea into motion should be bound and thrown into a pit full of hungry rats.

Anyone notice our current weather? A wet spring followed by a wet, short summer and grain shortages we are already seeing, will become severe. Throw in some more natural disasters like earthquakes, more floods, tornados and one really good volcanic eruption somewhere in the world  should clinch it. It's going to to be an interesting summer.

Type in zip code and gas prices of cheapest places in your town come up on town map. Updated daily.

http://autos.msn.com/everyday/GasStations.aspx

Ethanol uses field corn; not sweet corn. Field corn is used for other by-products and supplements that we as humans consume though: corn meal, corn starch, high-fructose corn syrup, etc. And my favorite...whiskey!

There are also many livestock farmers/ranchers that buy their feed and do not grind their own. This allows them to sell all of it they harvest, at least creating some cash flow.

Hey...so they tried an alternative fuel. Ethanol does not come from the actual grains we eat, for the most part. One problem arises when a farmer sells the grain for cash and feeds less of it by choice, creating their own share of shortages in beef, pork, or chicken on the market; thereby causing a raise in table food prices.

Its all connected and its all cyclical. Look what you pay for milk even over 10 years ago.