The nightmare of cost of fuel and transportationCurrent Event #4

Farm Industry News.Com
First you will need to go to the web site below another right side of the page click on the vide “Food vs. Fuel Debate”. This will help you understand my current of the article. In the first part of this report I was playing on how it is costing us more in the store for food that is costing us for gas at the pumps. In the second part I will discuss the environmental factors of the green gases without alternative fuels
http://farmindustrynews.com/biofuels/ethanol/

In the videotape, you watch the debate between major countries about the food versus the fuel costs. Moreover, how reflects on us as a consumer. By using corn is an alternative fuel costs and consumer a lot more than regular fuel. First with fuel cost being so high, we pay more for transportation of our food products to local stores. In addition we are taking the corn we used to feed the animals, that we butchered is now being Sold and used for fuel to offset the high costs of fuel. Therefore, in general some farmers must feed their animals food for other sources. Moreover, they are using valuable land, which they can grow crops to for their animals instead of purchasing food for their animals that has to be transported to farm. So in the long run It is cost is more for food in the store and gas at the pumps.
Biofuels Corn and Beyond
Feb 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Lynn Grooms
1. it takes one bushel of corn to make 2.8 gallons of ethanol, the ethanol industry used about 2.5 billion bushels of corn
2. the industry is expected to have the capacity to produce an additional 6 billion gallons by the end of 2008, potentially bringing total ethanol production to more than 13 billion gallons (using more than 4.5 billion bushels of corn) by the end of 2008
3. Plans to transform its 50-million-gallon-per-year grain-to-ethanol plant in Emmetsburg, IA, into an integrated corn-to-ethanol and cellulose-to-ethanol plant

The article above points out that the general synopsis from the public is that alternative fuels are environmentally friendly. Unfortunately recent studies have shown that a alternative fuels such as Biodiesel or Ethanol disperse as much or more green gasses into the atmosphere as regular fuel.

In closing, I would like to ask a question simply does the corn have to be produced into fuel and harvest, where can we use it to feed on livestock first and then convert the access into fuel efficient and an overseas. If this is possible we can lower the cost of food and still be able to produce the fuel do we need to setup purchases from overseas.