Kyler Laird wrote:
Newps writes:


Don't the farmers have a lot to gain by using (making corn for) ethanol?


Only when the corn is heavily subsidized. A farmer cannot make a profit

from selling the corn outright to an ethanol producer.

Uh...you want to give some details there? Ethanol plants pay about (but
typically *slightly* more) what local grain elevators pay.

Selling corn to make ethanol is not profitable without the federal
government stepping in to prop up the prices. If corn was sold on the
open market at market prices with no government interference there would
be no ethanol. You want to know what you're paying farmers and
ranchers? Take a look at this website and start crying.

http://www.ewg.org/farm/