Topic: Biofuel News - American Corn. Funny How US Bush’s Biofuel Invades Our Animal … - American Chronicle
US President George W Bush insists that the feedstock to produce ethanol from plants be the American corn, which scientists like to call Zea mays ; it’s amazing how corn goes into so many feeds of poultry & livestock, goes into so many food products that if you’re making ethanol out of your corn, you’re competing against the makers of food products who are forced to buy your expensive corn so the food makers raise their prices, and all the poor consumers can do is raise the roof and empty their pockets. The Brazilians insist that the feedstock to produce ethanol from plants be the Brazilian sugarcane, which scientists like to call Saccharum officinarum ; the plant’s saccharine promise of energy security is at the expense of the forest which the Brazilian farmers cut down the Brazilians solve a problem and create another, bigger problem. Mendoza explains that because the supply of corn is being diverted to the making of ethanol instead of feed (for poultry & livestock) or food (for people), and since the US produces 40% of the world’s corn and supplies 70% of all corn exports, whatever ethanol science the US practices on corn, that’s the dominant science that applies. I know of an ethanol science that favors the poor, and it comes from the other side of the world, the land of Mahatma Gandhi , that is, India . The science is applicable to sweet sorghum as the feedstock for ethanol; sweet sorghum science has been generated by the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) under the leadership of Director General William D Dar who has headed the Institute since 2000.
