corn laws 2010

CORN LAWS 2010
www.americanenergycrisis.blogspot.com , the go-to place for Peak Oil and economics engaging in a freak mating ritual and popping out a mutant spawn of the opening salvo of PODA in which the prepared individuals are lucky to be the last ones in the stew pot, has the latest figures in on oil import declines. Over 11% for the last year. Put that in your crack pipe and take a huge huff you big ear Muslim half-breed Kenyan citizen “green shoots” Nobel “Peace In The War Zone” Prize, carbon emitting Copenhagen visiting, Whore For Chicago Olympics, Read My Lips No New Taxes As I Jack Up Tobacco Prices ( it’s not a tax, it’s a fee ) mother humper. Baby Bush might have been an incompetent illiterate booze hound aspiring jack booted thug, but at least people weren’t stupid enough to look at his pretty face and believe the crap he was spewing ( outside of a few like “Republicans buy Viagra from my sponsors so can do no wrong” Limbaugh ). Anyway, back on track. On aforementioned site it was mentioned that ethanol was a program sure to be ramped up in the future and soon there would be no more corn exports from the US.
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Canadian tar sans and ethanol both are usually net energy losers. But the reason they are implemented and will be ramped up in the future is that they are the only alternate energy that uses our available infrastructure. We burn the regular oil and take the natural gas and use it as a heat source to “melt down” tar sands into an oil substitute. We take natural gas and turn it into an artificial fertilizer for corn and a electricity generator to pump water. You can spout all the tree hugging Birkenstock wearing Volvo driving “Can’t We All Just Get Along?” crap you want, the ideal energy future will never get here. In case you missed a few bridges collapsing during rush hour or a few inconvenient brown outs, our infrastructure built fifty to a hundred years ago is failing. All the shovel ready tax waste is simply to enrich a few contractors widening roads, exactly what we don’t need. We can’t maintain our existing infrastructure so there is absolutely no way a new one is going to be built. No natural gas vehicles. No solar electricity to power hybrids. No hydrogen. What we have is what we will use. And what we have is a liquid gasoline system. Ethanol and tar sand juice is what works with our existing infrastructure. The jag offs that stay rich on the current system, the ones that need you to stay in debt from age 18 to 81, the ones that can only be enriched if constant growth continues, they will continue ethanol and tar sands. Regardless if it is a net energy loss or not. Regardless of the environmental costs ( can anyone say, Easter Island statues? Mayan temples? Roman bread and circuses? ).
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The title of the article is just my extreme paranoia shining through. I don’t know if next year we will see a law banning corn exports as we are already seeing certain countries banning rice exports so as to feed their population first. Or if instead of a ban we will just see a market distorted government subsidy on corn purchases. But we will indeed see more and more corn going to fuel as our petroleum imports dry up faster and faster. Gasoline prices will go up as a result. Your vehicle will incur increased maintenance as a result ( already evident sometimes with ten percent blend ). Wheat and soybean prices will skyrocket, being the coal mine canary for meat and dairy, etc. Mexico will collapse as famine and revolt join the now failed Narco State form of governance. Japan will stop buying our debt. And whatever other negatives which result from our most important export being stopped. Money wise, cheap grain might not be important now. It soon will be as the weather events we’ve just seen continue to effect crop output. In the end, it will be about little more than heat and food. By then, reruns of So You Think You Can Rap Like An American Idol will not generate much in the way of corporate profits or taxable income.
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It’s easy to point to policy that led to the collapse after the fact. Is Corn For Fuel replacing Corn For Oil And Empire a collapse indicator? Who knows. It might be huge, or just another nail in the coffin. But it will lead to huge food price increases ( on top of that from inflation ) if nothing else. Joe Yuppie living in a thirty year mortgage driving a Government Motors SUV bought with a seven year note commuting from the burbs keeps the monied interests alive and well. Your ability to buy groceries is irrelevant.
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