Finally our Farmers are getting what they deserve
I wont lie and tell you that farmers get a raw deal in this country. Heck in this state for that matter (which I guess is part of the country, but I wanted to try and make this a sort of delaware post for a change, but it wont be so awww screw it)
These guys are the bread and butter of our country. When I think of farmers I think of Scarecrow and the Plow, Little Pink houses and Jack & Dianne how much more American do you get than John Cougar, John Cougar Mellencamp, John Mellencamp ? These guys and gals have done more to help this country and the world then any single industry in the world………. except for the automobile industry I guess, oh and the computer industry, oh and errrrrr our defense industry, I guess I shouldn’t leave out the telecommunications industry, crap I really don’t want to forget the media industry, where would we be without printing press too, shoot I guess I have to give props to steel industry as well, well anyways Farming was is pretty important to this great country and don’t you forget it! (I guess). They will be the first ones to tell you it’s important I bet!
So when I go to read that in RADCLIFFE, Iowa — Corn farmer Jim Handsaker has found a slew of ways to ride the heartland boom in biofuels that is reshaping the economy of rural Iowa. He sold some of his 2006 crop this year for more than $4 a bushel, the highest price in a decade. His stake in two nearby ethanol plants brought in several thousand dollars more in dividends. Meanwhile, soaring farmland prices have pushed the value of the 400 acres he owns to around $2 million.Even so, come October he will get a subsidy check from the government, part of a $1.6 billion installment
I can’t help but jump up and down no not like these guys, but like these guys!
You have to understand. This is America’s heartland, they have put the country on their backs for hundreds of years and have very little to show for it. Now they are getting their dues. This isn’t welfare! No, this is just deserts! This is the chicken in their pot
I for one am glad to see these people getting welfare, government assistance subsidies. I hope they continue to do so until milk hits $6 a gallon.
So the next time you fill up at the gas station and complain that your gas mileage is going down because of the ethanol in your tank, you remember who grew that freaking corn for you hippie! You remember who raised the price of corn that caused the price of your milk, eggs, and meat to go through the roof.
Then after you remember that and the subsidies they get to grow the stuff, SHUT THE FUCK UP, BE A REAL AMERICAN AND START BLAMING THE MEDIA!!!
Use of ethanol as a motor fuel may have been trendy but did it make economic sense?
The first push came over a century ago, when the use of alcohol in automobile racing in France may have saved the sport after the disasterous Paris-Madrid race.
Its use as a racing fuel (often from tanks bearing the name of gasoline company) had one advantage: it had a very high anti-knock property that allowed higher compression ratios (or boost pressures). This meant more power per liter of engine displacement. The downside was higher fuel consumption. Gasoline has a much higher specific energy content (calories/liter) than alcohol.
Since the laws of supply and demand are rather inflexible (despite the efforts of politicians and bureacrats) the diversion of corn from the production of food and beverages to fuel means higher food and beverage costs unless substantially more corn is grown.
Perhaps we are the victims of the anti-nuclear hysteria that has made us more reliant upon fossil fuel. We should re-think our past errors and remember that China Syndrome was not a documentary. With more abundant (and cheaper) electric power, we could investigate improved techniques for synthesizing hydrocarbon fuels.
We are victims of a small group of well-off and politically connected farmers whose business plans include federal subsidies.
Farmer Welfare Queens, if you will.
There ought to be a time limit or market price test for these subsidies. If subsidies are available, then they ought to be directed to the real familiy farms out there — those who are trying to grow fruits and veggies for local consumption.
The anti-nuclear hysteria has some basis for that hysteria. The most successful nuclear programs on the planet (the US Navy and the French) require standardization and restrictions that the US-based businesses will fight against. And they want taxpayers to capitalize the plants, which is completely unecessary.
let us know if we can put that nuke power plant in your front or backyard Art.
Forget the plant in the backyard.
Art, can we store the depleted rods in your basement? We only need the space for 10,000 years.