[sprntr]

Originally Posted by stockracer Anyone who thinks ethanol riases the price of their corn flakes is highly misinformed. We raise a couple of thousand acres of corn(and gov't says we-US has a surplus) and feed couple of thousand fat steers, due to by-products of ethanol processing our feed prices have dropped to 1/2 what they were before we had access to by-products. So cost of beef is more related to lack of beef in country(a couple of weeks ago, lowest slaughter #'s in over 50 years). Store prices are more because tranportation and co's. just wanting more $...

What does the price of ethanol by-products have to do with the price of the corn used to make corn flakes?

steiny

[DAD]

Originally Posted by sprntr What does the price of ethanol by-products have to do with the price of the corn used to make corn flakes? steiny

I think you need the virgin corn to make corn flakes, I'm not sure sloop would work to good for corn flakes or corn on the coob. But being from Kentucky I can tell you that ethanol is excelent for drinking as long as you age it for a few years. E.T. Morris the owner of 21 Brands Distillery in Frankfort Ky. used to run un-cut whisky before the Fed's got to it and taxed it in his sprint cars 50 years ago because it was easy for him to get and cheap.

Honest Dad himself

[illiNOISE]

Originally Posted by DAD Watch Daytona and see what Nascar does I just found out they switched to Ethanol too. Political correct racing,*** give me a break***

Regardless of what side of the debate you fall on this deal in regard to science or ********, given that a lot of the Silver Crown races run at State Fairgrounds that have state EPA booths--and by extension, state EPA officials--on the grounds during the Fair, it's proabably a good idea to engage in a little "conspicuous conservation" and "going green" by switching to ethanol.

[DAD]

Originally Posted by illiNOISE Regardless of what side of the debate you fall on this deal in regard to science or ********, given that a lot of the Silver Crown races run at State Fairgrounds that have state EPA booths--and by extension, state EPA officials--on the grounds during the Fair, it's proabably a good idea to engage in a little "conspicuous conservation" and "going green" by switching to ethanol.

I tend to be on the side of the pocket book. Drill for oil----Dig for coal, eat corn flakes in the morning and drink Burbon at night. Corn does not make a good fuel or fuel additive. As we get book smarter sometime we get confused about how things work. We have replace our religions with the belief that we (mankind) know what is good and everything that has gone on before "US" is all wrong.

I think one problem with ethanol is it is even more corrosive than methanol, but what the hey, we are doing it for good old mother earth. We need to protect ourselves and the earth from one another. Isn't that why we have big government?

Honest Dad himself

[illiNOISE]

Originally Posted by DAD I think one problem with ethanol is it is even more corrosive than methanol, but what the hey, we are doing it for good old mother earth. We need to protect ourselves and the earth from one another. Isn't that why we have big government? Honest Dad himself

It's not about Mother Earth, it's about keeping racing from falling too far behind the enviornmentalism curve. We're never really going to be "green", but you don't want the sport to look like a bunch of Neanderthals relative to the general public of the future. Otherwise it could become even easier to shut racetracks down than it is today.

Plus, by running Ethanol, you can send out press releases before the State Fair races saying that the car race at the State Fair is helping corn farmers.

[DAD]

Originally Posted by illiNOISE It's not about Mother Earth, it's about keeping racing from falling too far behind the enviornmentalism curve. We're never really going to be "green", but you don't want the sport to look like a bunch of Neanderthals relative to the general public of the future. Otherwise it could become even easier to shut racetracks down than it is today. Plus, by running Ethanol, you can send out press releases before the State Fair races saying that the car race at the State Fair is helping corn farmers.

OK OK I guess I'll just head back in the woods and crank up grand pa's still to make me some of that there fuel. Think I saw an artical in mother earth's news on how to brew that stuff up.

Tracks are not closing because they are not green.

Do you think that making up all these special blends of petro for each zip code and requireing that every action we take cost three times as much as it should, just might have something to do with track closings. If people cant afford to go to the race track ($5.00 gas) because the price of gasoline is too high and the food in the concession stands is too high because there are so many regs required to make it.

That is why tracks are closing. JUST CAIN'T AFFORD IT


Honest Dad himself