Brazil
A Deserving Victim Of The Crash
An AP article out yesterday says that many ethanol plants, which have popped up like warts in the last few years, are being shuttered. Good riddance.
October 9, 2008 | Read More
A Truly Free Energy Market
In Brazil, they make fuel out of naturally occurring grasses and sugarcane instead of corn. It’s much cheaper and way more effective. Yet we’ve essentially blocked it from coming into the country by levying giant tariffs on it. Once again, we’re doing the bidding of a few small, powerful interests instead of acting for the greater good.
We need to end those tariffs on Brazil’s bio-fuel pronto and let as much Brazilian-made ethanol into the country as we can. Maybe then, our farmers will go back to growing corn for food instead of a wasteful, taxpayer subsidized fuel and our grocery…
August 27, 2008 | Read More
Reason #36: Cornfed - Big Business’s ‘Socialist’ System
The former chairman of agriculture giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) once quipped that “the only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians … this is a socialist country.” We rarely get to hear our corporate or political leaders speak so candidly about the way our so-called capitalist system works these days.
Family farmers and small businesses in this country still have to play by the rules of the market. They try to make an honest profit on the crops they grow and the goods and services they sell. But for big business, the rules are different.…
August 26, 2008 | Read More
