http://www.greenrising.com/2007/07/13/powering-america-one-corn-flake-at-a-time/ a life more sustainable Sun, 09 May 2010 02:54:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.greenrising.com/2007/07/13/powering-america-one-corn-flake-at-a-time/comment-page-1/#comment-23781 green | rising » Blog Archive » America’s Corn-Based Idiocy Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:54:32 +0000 http://www.greenrising.com/index.php/2007/07/13/229/#comment-23781 [...] Please remain calm and in a single-file line or we’ll Taser you until you wet yourself. I’d like to share with you an editorial from the International Herald Tribune, a New York Times outfit but still a decent clear-headed international voice in a time of extreme ignorance and jingoism. As those who rely on science, and not politics, to make sound decisions have repeatedly pointed out, corn-based ethanol is a veritable Trojan horse. On the outside, a beautiful steed, marketed as America’s release from the grips of evil oil-based terrorists (Bush/Cheney?); a gorgeous maize-colored coat blowing in the wind, out-dramatized by 0nly a giant, waving Stars-and-Stripes. Inside, a siphon of reason and cheap food and subsidies, wasting water and polluting on mind-blowing scales. For more on this: Powering America, One Corn Flake At A Time [...] [...] Please remain calm and in a single-file line or we’ll Taser you until you wet yourself. I’d like to share with you an editorial from the International Herald Tribune, a New York Times outfit but still a decent clear-headed international voice in a time of extreme ignorance and jingoism. As those who rely on science, and not politics, to make sound decisions have repeatedly pointed out, corn-based ethanol is a veritable Trojan horse. On the outside, a beautiful steed, marketed as America’s release from the grips of evil oil-based terrorists (Bush/Cheney?); a gorgeous maize-colored coat blowing in the wind, out-dramatized by 0nly a giant, waving Stars-and-Stripes. Inside, a siphon of reason and cheap food and subsidies, wasting water and polluting on mind-blowing scales. For more on this: Powering America, One Corn Flake At A Time [...]

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