MEXICO CITY - Mexican farmers are setting ablaze fields of blue agave, the cactus-like plant used to make the fiery spirit tequila, and resowing the land with corn as soaring U.S. ethanol demand pushes up prices.
The switch to corn will contribute to an expected scarcity of agave in coming years, with officials predicting that farmers will plant between 25 percent and 35 percent less agave this year to turn the land over to corn.
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Many growers have started to abandon the crop in favor of corn, whose price has rocketed in line with massive growth in U.S. demand for ethanol after President Bush outlined targets last year to use the corn-based fuel as a gasoline alternative.
have you forgotten the agave shortage of 2000 - I suppose that's Bush's fault too.
Let's face it - ethanol has the potential to be better for the environment, and that's a good thing isn't it?
*all of a sudden I hear a I love mother earth speech made at a tailgate
Well...(said in my best Bubba voice) I've been on sabbatical.
ph4ever wrote:have you forgotten the agave shortage of 2000 - I suppose that's Bush's fault too.
Let's face it - ethanol has the potential to be better for the environment, and that's a good thing isn't it?
*all of a sudden I hear a I love mother earth speech made at a tailgate
ph4ever wrote:have you forgotten the agave shortage of 2000 - I suppose that's Bush's fault too.
Let's face it - ethanol has the potential to be better for the environment, and that's a good thing isn't it?
*all of a sudden I hear a I love mother earth speech made at a tailgate
this is already cutting into their "corn for food" production. Price of tortillas in Mexico has been rising steadily all year as the grain is diverted to the ethanol market.
But if there is no tequila, what can I tell my wife as an excuse for the stupid stuff I do? (She has bought the theory that Jack makes me funny, Rum makes me mellow and tequila makes me stupid.)
M.K. "You should never use any of the 13 bad words!"
S.T. "I thought there were only 7 bad words?"
M.K. "Not if you're a sailor."
ph4ever wrote:have you forgotten the agave shortage of 2000 - I suppose that's Bush's fault too.
Let's face it - ethanol has the potential to be better for the environment, and that's a good thing isn't it?
*all of a sudden I hear a I love mother earth speech made at a tailgate
*you know why he is my friend , because he is a parrothead
and there is Nothing nothing better in this world then being a parrothead m do you know why , because we love each other , we love his music and we love mother earth, Respect MOTHER EARTH
she is here but she needs are help
MEXICO CITY - Mexican farmers are setting ablaze fields of blue agave, the cactus-like plant used to make the fiery spirit tequila, and resowing the land with corn as soaring U.S. ethanol demand pushes up prices.
The switch to corn will contribute to an expected scarcity of agave in coming years, with officials predicting that farmers will plant between 25 percent and 35 percent less agave this year to turn the land over to corn.
. . .
Many growers have started to abandon the crop in favor of corn, whose price has rocketed in line with massive growth in U.S. demand for ethanol after President Bush outlined targets last year to use the corn-based fuel as a gasoline alternative.
Sha La lalalalalalala la laT da
~Mike Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
RinglingRingling wrote:this is already cutting into their "corn for food" production. Price of tortillas in Mexico has been rising steadily all year as the grain is diverted to the ethanol market.
yep, it's no silver bullet. It burns cleaner, but producing it causes plenty of pollution. It may be the darling of DC right now, but it has serious environmental & economic downsides.
Telling myself the same lies that I told myself back home
