http://www.fillet-of-soule.com/2006/12/alternative-fuels-whats-the-fuss/ Shop talk from Graphic and Web Designer Travis Soule. Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:00:54 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.fillet-of-soule.com/2006/12/alternative-fuels-whats-the-fuss/comment-page-1/#comment-193 travis Sat, 13 Jan 2007 14:27:40 +0000 http://www.fillet-of-soule.com/blog/?p=47#comment-193 You know, it had never even crossed my mind that so many food products were sweetened with corn. High-fructose corn syrup, its the second or third ingredient on just about everything sweet. Honestly, the scope of this whole problem is slowly becoming clear to me. I'm willing to bet that nearly all of those products that are sweetened with corn, are in a container that was made with or contains oil. You know, it had never even crossed my mind that so many food products were sweetened with corn. High-fructose corn syrup, its the second or third ingredient on just about everything sweet. Honestly, the scope of this whole problem is slowly becoming clear to me. I’m willing to bet that nearly all of those products that are sweetened with corn, are in a container that was made with or contains oil.

]]> http://www.fillet-of-soule.com/2006/12/alternative-fuels-whats-the-fuss/comment-page-1/#comment-192 Ashley Sat, 13 Jan 2007 14:13:35 +0000 http://www.fillet-of-soule.com/blog/?p=47#comment-192 If we made a larger market for ethanol, all the corporate farms (which is like 90%) would begin producing corn, drive the prices lower, and we'd be stuck with really expensive lettuce at the stores; this would piss people off even more than a 10% increase in fuel costs. Ooo, cereal prices would go up, too. That's sad. I like frosted mini-wheats. All things considered, corn is already the most important agricultural commodity in our country. Since they subsidised it, farmers have an incentive to grow it, there's no standard for its quality, and its guaranteed to go somewhere. They even inject livestock with some concoction that makes them capable of digesting corn, so that we can have a cheap feed for them...creepy...so meats, cereals, sodas, snacks, yogurts, almost anything sweetened from a non-organic/natural foods company is bound to contain corn. We really can't grow any more of the crap, there will be no soil left to produce wheat, or oats, or greens...not to mention encouraging poor soil management...I'll stop before I go into crop rotation (how do you rotate your crops if all you grow is corn? No ones going to leave a productive field dormant to restore it.) So yeah, no ethanol, try nuclear, or electric, or possibly hydrogen...or, wow, this is a novel one...your bike? If we made a larger market for ethanol, all the corporate farms (which is like 90%) would begin producing corn, drive the prices lower, and we’d be stuck with really expensive lettuce at the stores; this would piss people off even more than a 10% increase in fuel costs. Ooo, cereal prices would go up, too. That’s sad. I like frosted mini-wheats. All things considered, corn is already the most important agricultural commodity in our country. Since they subsidised it, farmers have an incentive to grow it, there’s no standard for its quality, and its guaranteed to go somewhere. They even inject livestock with some concoction that makes them capable of digesting corn, so that we can have a cheap feed for them…creepy…so meats, cereals, sodas, snacks, yogurts, almost anything sweetened from a non-organic/natural foods company is bound to contain corn. We really can’t grow any more of the crap, there will be no soil left to produce wheat, or oats, or greens…not to mention encouraging poor soil management…I’ll stop before I go into crop rotation (how do you rotate your crops if all you grow is corn? No ones going to leave a productive field dormant to restore it.) So yeah, no ethanol, try nuclear, or electric, or possibly hydrogen…or, wow, this is a novel one…your bike?

]]> http://www.fillet-of-soule.com/2006/12/alternative-fuels-whats-the-fuss/comment-page-1/#comment-148 Chris HP Fri, 29 Dec 2006 23:22:11 +0000 http://www.fillet-of-soule.com/blog/?p=47#comment-148 Aw man. Aw man.

]]> http://www.fillet-of-soule.com/2006/12/alternative-fuels-whats-the-fuss/comment-page-1/#comment-144 travis Fri, 29 Dec 2006 04:20:41 +0000 http://www.fillet-of-soule.com/blog/?p=47#comment-144 Yes indeed. Fixed now. Yes indeed. Fixed now.

]]> http://www.fillet-of-soule.com/2006/12/alternative-fuels-whats-the-fuss/comment-page-1/#comment-142 Chris HP Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:33:32 +0000 http://www.fillet-of-soule.com/blog/?p=47#comment-142 "Foreign Oil" is two words. “Foreign Oil” is two words.

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