It's corn planting season in Nebraska. Farmers all across our state are tilling the land and planting corn. Some for food, some for fuel and some aren't planting anything at all and leaving a portion of their land as 'set aside' which means they leave it alone for wildlife and conservation efforts.
There seems to be lots of controversy around corn these days.Time magazine says corn-based ethanol is killing the earth, Bill Maher asks how environmentalists got it so wrong, political pundits are saying farmers are getting rich off of a fuel that may be renewable but isn’t clean and is causing more harm than good including increasing the price of food.
Hogwash...farmers are feeding and fueling our country, we need to support that, not buy into the demonizing of them.
Corn-based ethanol was never THE solution to making America energy independent and to stop global warming, it was always part of the solution.
Folks in the ethanol business—everyone from farmers, to consumers, to scientists and researchers, to ethanol plant workers and developers—know that ethanol is one step towards many that will make America energy independent.
Folks against ethanol say it uses too much water to produce it—true in the 70s, not true today. Ethanol plants built today use all recycled water and use less water than an average golf course does to water their grass.
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