Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Hey Enviros, we have a few problems (issue for some) here!

Seems that many of the Ethanol Happy Farmers have elected to grow one crop of corn, after another crop of corn and are not rotating their fields as is usual.

This presents some problems (issues for some).

#1 It drastically depletes the nutrients from the soil and allows disease to proliferate.

#2 Insects that feed on corn can now multiply many times over without interruption of what sustains their development.

And this presents two more problems (issues for some).

#1 It drastically increases the need for use of artificial (man made) fertilizers and much of that is derived from fossil fuels.

#2 It drastically increases the need for use of insecticides, fungicides and pesticides (man made) much of which is derived from fossil fuels.

Next, we are lucky to break even on the production of Ethanol from Corn and we are killing the mother land in the process.

But what the heck, we put the hurt on Chevron's profits, right?

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