DIYbanter - View Single Post - Food shortage ethanol follies, I've planted a food garden.

Norminn

wrote:

On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:34:06 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

The per usual republicrat farm socialism has created food supply
chaos, subsidized corn for ethanol fuel has crowded out other food
crops, speculators abroad have taken their bales of dollarpesos and
bought out our wheat supplies so that we'll have to re-import at a
higher price. Gov't. has paid southeast Texas farmers to raise
livestock instead of rice, now Sam's Club and Costco are rationing it.
So I tossed the ornamental plants and have planted corn, beans,
peppers, and tomatoes, maybe carrots next. I recommend others do the
same this season in their backyards if they have them. I don't think
there will be acute food shortages this year in the USA, but grocery
prices are high and getting higher. It will also save the fossile fuel
to get it from the farm to your table. I would raise meat but codes in
my 'burb won't allow it.

If all the obese Americans had liposuction, the fat sucked out of
their fat asses could be used to power all the vehicles in America for
the next decade or longer. Fat is pure energy meant to be burned, and
that does not mean burning fat at the gym.

No, that is the expensive route. Just put them on a dang treadmill.
Forget solar. Just wire up
the treadmill.