Consequences of the severe drought accross Americas farmland.

[blind ear]

Get rid of the ethanol program (subsidy) and it will help food and fuel prices go down. Will hurt corn farmers but help consuumers. It will never happen because it is another "bailout" for a bubble that the government created. It could cause enough ecconomic impact to speed up the recession. ear

[Dixie Dude]

Makes you wonder if George Soros and/or the government is monkeying with the weather.  Soros last year pulled his holdings out of stocks and bonds and put it into agriculture commodities like corn and wheat futures, and buying land.  Could be he knew the ethonol program would drive up food prices. 
 
We can get rid of the ethynol program and start using natural gas in vehicles, especially fleet vehicles, allow more drilling and get both food and fuel prices down.  Too easy of a solution. 

[Empty Quiver]

Heard on the radio last night that the UN is calling for the US to suspend ethanol production.
 
I have finally found something we agree on. A shame it took a terrible drought to interject common sense into that useless mound of concrete.

[blind ear]

Heard on the radio last night that the UN is calling for the US to suspend ethanol production.
 
I have finally found something we agree on. A shame it took a terrible drought to interject common sense into that useless mound of concrete.

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Yep, the UN still should be turned into a parking lot. ear

[Buckskin]

Heard on the radio last night that the UN is calling for the US to suspend ethanol production.
 
I have finally found something we agree on. A shame it took a terrible drought to interject common sense into that useless mound of concrete.

 
That will not happen. You can try and get rid of subsidies and mandates, but if you pull that amount of fuel from the US supply, fuel prices will shoot through the roof.  Brazilian sugar cane ethanol is probably a better source, but ethanol is here to stay...