Farm Bill and Ethanol Fuels Mandates DEMANDS Consumer Revolt!

 

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The
Farm Bill and Ethanol Mandates are two fingers on the same hand. Both
have the effect of radically elevating food prices by different paths.
Both programs are now being quietly debated in Congress. Only the
lobbyists are being heard.
You are not! ~ Charles E Carlson

Ethanol
mandates are a related part of the food price runaway. Called
“Renewable Fuels” legislation, it is every bit the root of the problem
in elevating food prices as administered by the giant, unaccountable
EPA.

It is now clear that, because it is a net consumer of
hydrocarbons, ethanol hurts the environment, rather than preserving it.
It is no longer debatable: even Al Gore has admitted it!

The
mandates that we burn corn in our gas tanks at a huge cost to ourselves,
continues. Why? Because Congress cannot say “NO” to the giant
agribusiness lobbies who are demanding a new, even cushier farm bill and
bigger ethanol mandates.

According to the US, 2007 Census, there are less than 400,000 grain
farms in the USA, many of which raises corn and are beneficiaries of
inflated grain prices. I will not attempt to calculate how many
agribusiness enterprises, from Monsanto to John Deere, also benefit.

Clearly the 200 million or more auto owners who do not own a corn
farm or a share in Monsanto, are the losers. We consumer looser
outnumber the winners 100-1 or more, but we do not have a lobby against
compulsory use of ethanol, so to be heard, we must shout!

The present expiring “Farm Bill” was created in a different era of ample
farm surpluses and low prices. It was costly in subsidies, but it
tended to build food surpluses. Not so today because of Renewable fuel
Mandates that stimulate destruction of food for ethanol production.

A
one-time law must be passed to repeal the authority of the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) to deciding what you and I must burn in our
cars.

The
farm program is due to expire this year, unless it is renewed. This
one is easy; Congress needs do nothing, which they are very good at!
What they are not good at is saying “NO” to the agri-business lobby.

If you want to reduce your food
and fuel costs by a third or more your message to Congress, your kids,
your church and your neighbors should be: “No Farm Bill, No More Ethanol
Mandates.”

If your Congressman will not listen, roast his effigy in a
nice clean-burning ethanol fire in front of his office or home. TELL
CONGRESS, LET BOTH EXPIRE, or don’t come home from Washington!

Whether you fill up your 2001
Civic, or your 2012 BMW, the choice should be yours. Do you want a 10%
or 15% ethanol mix, or do you want 0% Ethanol?

If buyers had a choice,
it would only be a matter of months before all the ethanol pumps would
be gone; the only reason we ever burned ethanol is that we were
flim-flammed into believing it was “better for the environment.” Now we
know this is no more true than the war-lobby maxim that “war brings
peace.”

On May 22
Consumer Reports disclosed that the use of the newly
approved 15% ethanol could harm car and truck engines; according to the
American Petroleum Institute, a study conducted by the Coordinating
Research Council showed 25% of engines in 2009 and older vehicles have
major failures before 100,000 miles. Even the EPA warns against using it
in cars older than 2001, lawn mowers and outboard motors.

Nine automakers—including
Chrysler, General Motors, and Toyota—wasted no time writing letters to
Congress, criticizing the proposal and noting they will not honor
warranties for older cars running on E-15, because fuel pumps and other
fuel-system components in cars were not designed for it.

We ask, if we
know 15% ethanol may wreck our engine, why would we think 10% ethanol is
OK to use? Would you believe it if the FDA told you three crystals of
meth will kill you, but two crystals are good for you?

Is
there a consumer who is not aware that food and fuel are the two most
inflated items in the family budget? In just four years the wholesale
price of gasoline has risen about 150%, this during a “recession.”

The
cost of wheat is up 48% during the same period, and corn–the raw
material for most meat and milk–has risen more than double. As a
result, every meat product is beginning to go into orbit.

You might ask, what about food stamps, is that part of the farm bill?
Probably, and if Congress feels the need to renew the food stamp
program for the poor, let Congress pass a separate bill authorizing food
aid, but not as part of a program to aid farmers.

The worst new farm abuse I have heard of is consumer subsidized corp insurance. 

We
pay the lion share of the premiums and the real benefit goes to giant
insurance companies who insure the farmer’s crops from failure.

More
bail outs of indurance companies, and you are asked to guarantee that
the farmers will have favorable weather! Yes this is really happening
in the “new farm bill,” and it proves our Congress Is not capable of
logic when lobbyist are around.

The only answer is NO FARM Bill.

Farm aid is
tilted toward a few, who are driving Escalades and half million dollar
harvesters. What is gravy for the corn farmer is bankruptcy for many
others who chose to milk cows or raise beef cattle, and who now cannot
afford the price of feed because of the burning of corn. Have compassion
for the cows and horses if you don’t care about your budget!

To lower your fuel and food prices, the
ethanol industry (not the farmers) must go deservedly go broke, and
Wall Street and a lot of investor victims must lose their investments.
This will happen as soon as Congress takes away the Mandates. So let us
get on with it. Do your part – it’s your life. 

 

Charles E Carlson – May 29, 2012 – WeHoldTheseTruths

 

Links:
EPA Renewable Fuels: http://wastepaper/otaq/fuels/renewablefuels/index.htm

Farm Bill: http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/farmbill2008?navid=FARMBILL2008

Author: Corn-to-Ethanol: US Agribusiness Magic Path To A World Food Monopoly

Charles E. Carlson Sep 27, 2007, http://whtt.org/newwhtt/main.php?nid=1774

 

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