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Originally Posted by Nickdago
Actually we are straining the corn crop and you are wrong if you think it is not effecting prices. Corn is used in multiple products such as corn syrup which is used in almost everything as a sweetner, it is in our cereals and a million other items. Last time I looked there were over 45 countries with riots due to the high cost of corn products in their countries.
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And Mexican farmers protested the importing of cheap corn grown in Canada and the US.
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Originally Posted by Captain Awesome
There was a thing on the news tonight about turning coal into gasoline. Apparently other countries do this and gas cost to them is about $12.00 a barrel to make. I don't know what it costs to make gas from crude, but even with a large markup I don't think it's cheaper than $12 a barrel.
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The Germans were doing that as far back as WWII, half the fuel used by their airforce was derived from coal.