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The Movie "pump" -flex-fuel For The Elio??
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RUCRAYZE
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You're just a kid!!! have a good night
I just watched the movie. The first part is really interesting, for example when they talk about what's going to happen car wise in China, but the second half feels like it might have been sponsored by corn growers and ethanol makers. Still manages to make some valid points though.
RUCRAYZE
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Although it's a pleasant thought to think corn growing is a Mom and Pop operation, It's large conglomerates with their Industrialized food production that drives the market, and for sure, any money making use of their product wouldn't enter the discussion. Further, it's really our government that owns the corn, being the most heavily subsidized "farm" product.
Netflix "King Corn", great little flic that shares the reality of this risk free business operates-
" subsidized crops benefit from an increasingly complex layering of subsidy programs begun in the 1930s and altered haphazardly ever since. The primary subsidy system today consists of the following elements, each of which will be explained in more detail below.
- Direct payments are paid at a set rate every year regardless of conditions.
- Counter-cyclical payments are triggered when market prices fall below certain thresholds.
- A new revenue assurance program provides for overall profitability for a given crop.
- Marketing loans offer very favorable terms whereby farmers can realize tremendous gains through loan deficiency payments (LDPs) and commodity certificates.
- Disaster payments recoup large losses due to natural phenomena. And the government subsidizes crop insurance to further insulate farmers from risk."
Interesting that you mention King Corn, I was thinking of that documentary when I saw them hype corn ethanol in the second part of Pump.
RUCRAYZE
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how does the subsidized program continue, with all the suplus $ happen you ask?- It's the "sweet" relationship and marriage of industry and government!!!
"Most high-level FDA employees have a background in either medicine or law, but one of the largest private-sector sources is the Monsanto Company. Over the past decades, at least seven high-ranking employees in the FDA have an employment history with the Monsanto Company.
Connections have led many to speculate whether any conflicts of interest exist within this revolving door between the big food companies and the department charged with regulating them.
At the forefront of this controversy is Michael R. Taylor, currently the deputy commissioner of the Office of Foods. He was also the deputy commissioner for Policy within the FDA in the mid ’90s. However, between that position and his current FDA position, Mr. Taylor was employed by Monsanto as Vice President of Public Policy.
During his employment with Monsanto, the company was developing rBGH, a type of beef growth hormone. Mr. Taylor advised the company on the possible legal implications of using the hormone on cattle that could reach beef markets for human consumption. However, when Taylor left Monsanto for the FDA, he became one of the main authorities behind the FDA’s rBGH labeling guidelines, posing potential conflicts of interest.
"Most high-level FDA employees have a background in either medicine or law, but one of the largest private-sector sources is the Monsanto Company. Over the past decades, at least seven high-ranking employees in the FDA have an employment history with the Monsanto Company.
Connections have led many to speculate whether any conflicts of interest exist within this revolving door between the big food companies and the department charged with regulating them.
At the forefront of this controversy is Michael R. Taylor, currently the deputy commissioner of the Office of Foods. He was also the deputy commissioner for Policy within the FDA in the mid ’90s. However, between that position and his current FDA position, Mr. Taylor was employed by Monsanto as Vice President of Public Policy.
During his employment with Monsanto, the company was developing rBGH, a type of beef growth hormone. Mr. Taylor advised the company on the possible legal implications of using the hormone on cattle that could reach beef markets for human consumption. However, when Taylor left Monsanto for the FDA, he became one of the main authorities behind the FDA’s rBGH labeling guidelines, posing potential conflicts of interest.
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"conflict of interest" you say? Kind of like the relationship between the DHS and the Mexican drug cartels? 
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You might want to do some research on algea for biofuels. Very provocative.
RUCRAYZE
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yep! conflict I (and the facts support the work history's of the above executives) I don't remember anyone from DHS changing jobs to work in the Mexican drug trade, nor anyone from the Cartels working for the DHS"conflict of interest" you say? Kind of like the relationship between the DHS and the Mexican drug cartels?
You might want to do some research on algea for biofuels. Very provocative.
What does one feed to algae?
diesel out requires some feedstock in.