Putting Your Food Into Your Gas Tank Causes Food Prices To Rise


	Putting Your Food Into Your Gas Tank Causes Food Prices To Rise

ColoradoRight

10-23-2008 3:48 PM

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gas, corn, food, prices, ethanol

ColoradoRight says:

Yet another duuuuuh moment. Which will be derided and denounced by the great and powerful Algore.

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10-24-2008 9:34 AM

pkronfield

Right fuel, just wrong place in the consumption cycle. Process the stuff after we eat it - i.e. extract methane from human and animal waste. Or convert cars to run, like mine, on waste vegetable oil.

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