| Texas Governor Has A Beef With Corn |
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| Written by Heather McKee | |
| Tuesday, 15 July 2008 | |
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Cross-posted from Envirovore Texas Governor Rick Perry has a beef with the EPA’s new Renewable Fuel Standards. The Republican governor, as well as four dozen U.S. House members and two dozen senators (including John McCain), have written to the EPA chief requesting a 50 percent waiver of ethanol mandates, claiming the quotas will further harm cattle and chicken industries by raising feed prices. Initially, a spring study by Texas A&M showed that a waiver on ethanol quotas would not reduce the price of corn in the U.S. However, upon request by Perry, A&M reanalyzed their data in light of the Midwest floods, and unsurprisingly, they found that a waiver would indeed drastically reduce the price of corn. Researchers estimate that 43 percent of all corn grown in the United States will be for ethanol by 2016. It’s hard to imagine that this conversion has not already been raising corn prices for livestock producers. Unfortunately though, Perry’s request, apparently reasonable in its basis, is a tad spoiled by a $100,000 donation that the Perry-led Republican Governor's Association received from chicken magnate Lonnie “Bo” Pilgrim. EPA's decision on the waiver of all states' ethanol production quotas is expected by July 23rd.
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  written by Benjamin Turner, July 16, 2008
The "fact" that 43% of corn will be used for ethanol seems to be a prediction that went into the study, not a result of it, and I'd love to know how they arrived at that number. At least based on what I read here and on sister site EcoGeek, it sounds like the really big advances are currently being made in cellulosic and other non-food-sourced ethanol production. I find it hard to believe that nearly half of corn farming will be for ethanol if these other, cheaper sources do expand as alternatives.
written by Martin K, August 16, 2008
As bad as the decision to invade Iraq was, I think the decision to subsidize corn-based ethanol will take the cake. There's no way this is not affecting food production. In a real free market there's no way corn-based ethanol would be employed for this long because it's a dumb, dumb idea. When are we going to realize that the government isn't smart or trustworthy enough to make these kinds of decisions?
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