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joyful1:
:D Hi Carol!
Glad you feel better! heheheh!
I have a question or two, though....you said that renewables should be air and sun but never any kind of plant....can you explain to me ( a really stupid old woman ) what you mean by that? Renewable energy (constant supply?), air and sun, windmills and solar panels? Ethanol can be produced from corn, correct? How did you get into stock trading?
Joyce :)

carol v:
Hi Joyce, I started stock trading by first being an investor. Then I just gradually started doing it full time. I only trade for myself, not others. I'm not licensed.

The use of our land and water to produce corn to burn in our cars is the main reason that the cost of food has sky-rocketed lately. The devaluation of the dollar also has an affect. Growing corn is much more profitable than growing lettuce or wheat so land and resources once devoted to these crops are now growing gasoline. Plus the price of corn has so greatly increased that other commodities dependent on it, like cows, have also gone up. The price of meat and dairy is also skyrocketing.

I took the kids to Pizza Hut last week and had to get out a microscope to find the cheese. I feel sorry for the pizza businesses these days -- trying to keep the costs to what people think a pizza should be while the cost of wheat flour and cheese is astronomical.

We are using our precious water, stripping our forests and other crops for the land and decreasing the amount of beneficial plants on the planet that keep the toxins out of the air and our ecosystem in balance -- all to burn fuel in our cars. Ethanol is bad ecologically and economically. No one will want to grow anything else but corn so crop rotation will also go out the window.

Using switchgrass and mesquite trees instead of corn may sound like a good idea but it will also be hugely detrimental to our planet. These plants have a purpose.

If we truly start using the "mandated" amount of ethanol that the President has signed into law by 2025 (I think)...then famine will hit the planet unlike ever before. Only rich people will be able to afford food. We won't be able to find fresh water either.

Then...there is also the pesticides and fertilizers that this huge expanse of corn fields will place into the aquifers. The water we do have will be even more polluted than it is now.

The very sad fact about the entire thing is that it takes more energy to produce a gallon of ethanol than the ethanol itself. Irony is alive and well on planet earth. I'm not quite sure the exact percentage but one gallon of ethanol only provides 75% of the energy of a gallon of gas.

The corn growers have one of the strongest lobby groups in Washington and along with Big Pharma. The primary in Iowa is a big effect. Every politician on television was touting the benefits of ethanol going into Iowa but it's a huge hoax and a very, very dangerous road to travel down.

The only bigger hoax I can think off offhand is that the poison known as flouride should be anywhere close to our kids, our mouths or in our water supply. Flouride is poison, does nothing for your teeth and was railroaded into American consciousness by one of the biggest big business/government hoaxes ever known...but now I'm getting off the subject...as usual!

Carol

Dennis Vogel:
I think the biggest reason for everything going up in the US is the cost of the war. The government is printing money as fast as it can. The dollar is constantly loosing value. That's why oil is so high. A dollar does not buy as much so the oil producers raise the price of a barrel of oil per US dollars. Other countries whose currency has risen against the dollar are not hurting as much.

I've said for years that turning food into fuel is immoral. And I've heard that it takes as much energy to make a gallon of Ethanol as it does to product it. Not exactly smart.

Just my opinion.

Dennis

Martinez:

When I first heard that they were turning corn into ethanol I thought that it was the stupidest thing that I had ever heard!

Me and My wife have a bit of a hedge around us at the moment because we have been given a place to live for only $120 AU a week which is pretty much unheard of, even around here. The property we live on is on 80 acre's and it's half way up a mountain with a very hairy drive way, so it's pretty hard to get to, so it's off the beaten track and then some!
We are going to start a vegi garden because the cost of living is and is going thru the roof here. also, there are groups of people who are into alternative living around here so their all into the whole localization thing. I think that anyone who has been called out to be chosen is going to be looked after until the time is right, and even those who won't make into the first Resurrection because some of us have to be Judas.

I know things have looked grim before as far as the economy and famine and everything is concerned, but the fact that God is calling out His elect in such big numbers should tell you that this time is different.

Bush might just be the stupidest man on the planet right now, but it's an appointed stupidity!

This discussion brings to mind a verse.

Rev 6:6  And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, A choenix of wheat for a denarius, and three choenixes of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.

Beloved:
This is all absurd...I heard that they sold a corn flake on Ebay for $2000.   It was shaped like Illinoise...some traveling oddity show bought it...is the world insane     ::)

The announcer then started talking about the prices of the toast with jesus and other religious items that bring even more money, these people have lost some of their frontal lobes.


Forget stocks.... I am going out to buy a box of corn flakes, I will then at least I will be able to eat my losses.

Beloved

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