And I gotta say, it’s not very hard to trash Sarah Palin. If this nice lady is at the top of the Republican party come 2012…prepare for a democratic majority for a very long time.

I like John McCain very much, the man’s reputation speaks for itself. And he almost had my vote if it wasn’t for the fact that the GOP shoved this woman at him to make up for his moderate stance as a Republican. They passed up some truly adequate, competent Republicans that would have served the party much better, and been a truly better running mate than Sarah Palin.

I personally can take it, I don’t mind. I hunt and fish often, and killed my share of pigs, as it is a popular meal to cook down here in Miami. But my point is that it doesn’t look good conducting an interview (of a polictician) in front of that type of scene. I am not saying don’t kill turkeys, I am not saying that turkeys shouldn’t be killed to be eaten. Drop that asanine “city folk, country folk” nonsense for a second and think about it.

Certainly before you trash one of my posts you should…you know “read” it.

This goes to show that if our tax money wasn’t paying for the production of ethanol from corn that the cost per gallon at the pump could be as high as $20.00 a gallon! Remember two bushels of corn was $6.00 so costing $12.00 in corn alone per gallon then the cost of production added to that! We can not afford ethanol!

In addition, corn and corn syrup are used in an array of products, meaning the price of everything from candy to soft drinks will eventually go up, analysts say. It’s the latest dose of bad news for US consumers, who are already struggling with higher food costs from record increases in the price of wheat, soybeans, and other agriculture products.

Another loser in higher corn costs is ethanol producers, who are struggling to squeeze out gains as corn’s record-setting run outpaces the price of ethanol, currently at around $2.50 a gallon.

http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2008/04/04/corn_pops_to_record_6_per_bushel/

I heard that it takes 2 bushels of corn to make one gallon of ethanol and if thats true with corn prices at $6.00 a bushel would mean that a gallon of ethanol would cost $12.00 of corn not counting all the work that goes into distilling it! It has to be heated to a hard boil which turns to steam and then re-cooled back to a liquid state! When I was young I help run a moonshine still and it took alot of corn and alot of wood to make a gallon of moonshine!