an idea

[dchenes]

I read something the other day that said that if we started converting to running cars on corn-based ethanol, there wouldn't be enough corn to feed people.

To which I say, there's a solution. Stop putting high fructose corn syrup in everything, and use the corn for ethanol instead. That should also help some with the American obesity issue. (Why in hell does sausage need to have corn syrup in it, anyway?)

Comments

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

I think there'd be plenty. I am pretty sure the government still pays farmers NOT to plant to capacity--it doesn't have to come for corn, OR, maybe we plant other foodstuffs elsewhere and let the midwest become the fuel producers.

You're not wrong, I think.