Food for thought

Thursday May 29, 2008

I just read that the cattle ranchers can't afford to feed their stock with the price of corn being so high. Their solution is to send most of their cattle to market so that they won't have to feed them. The good news is that beef will cost less for a short period of time. The bad news is that when that supply is done, the next batch of beef will cost almost twice as much as it does now. Why???
The idea of using corn to produce Ethanol for auto fuel is causing all of this. Food should never be used as fuel. Why Washington is forcing this hardship on the country and the rest of the world is mind boggling. In my wildest imagination I cannot see the logic behind this practice.
We can't drill for oil here in our own gulf of Mexico or off the coast of Florida and yet Mexico does it and Cuba is starting to do it 45 miles from Key West. If Cuba can drill 45 miles from our shores, why can't we? Will the environment be safer with Cuba drilling than with the USA drilling? I don't think so.I think our federal government is brain dead or corrupt or both.

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