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Originally Posted by basjoos
Also it doesn't address the problem of food shortages, riots, urban unrest, and government overthrows in 3rd world countries being caused by the ever increasing price of corn due to the ever increasing demand of corn for ethanol production. The increasing availability of dried distiller's grain for livestock feed in this country doesn't help the situation in the 3rd world for the guy who can rarely, if ever, afford meat and is increasingly unable to afford the corn to feed his family.
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Had I not hidden my textbook I would be reading it right now, instead of in the far-more-interesting forums. My original Bachelor's was in Spanish and I had a painfully politically-correct professor once rant about European-Americans taking food away from hard-working Latinos.
I have a poor memory. I think that part of it is that I like to be positive and I try to forget negative experiences, like sitting through that class. I do not have any idea what adjectives she used for the aforementioned "European-Americans," just that it was negative. I did not have any idea how that was supposed to be related to a book from 1905 that we read or why she insisted on speaking in Spanglish.
I am currently taking both Anatomy and Physics. I try to prepare for the first test in a new class, but do not worry too much, once I have taken a test I know how to prepare for the next one. Each of these professors drops our lowest test score.
That Spanglish professor only had one test--after the drop\add deadline, and I scored a 25%.
So, I understand the idea that increasing demand for corn is a hardship for some, and I hate to think of people starving over my fuel blend. I just had a bad experience with an unreasonable professor, so I am biased against anything that she said.
I understood that adding ethanol was supposed to decrease pollution, but it does not seem like it works out well. I had not heard about that, so I did a quick search, and skimmed . It did not sound promising.
Sometimes a flying carpet sounds great!