Record Drought May Be a Good Time to Stop Using Corn for Fuel
Date: Aug 18 2012
Filed under: Energy, Economy, Food
Newsflash: The United Nations and The Wall Street Journal just agreed on something. Earlier this month the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization issued a statement urging “an immediate, temporary suspension” of America’s use of corn to produce ethanol, in order to “allow more of the crop to be channelled toward food and feed uses.”
Within 24 hours, responded: “Natural disasters can’t be controlled. Ethanol is a man-made disaster that could be stopped.”
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Record Drought May Be a Good Time to Stop Using Corn for Fuel originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-08-18T06:00:00Z.
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