Re: Couple of new articles: even more impact on barley prices could

Brian Bartz wrote:

> Corn ethanol is bad news.  When you figure out the amount of energy that

> goes into getting the ethanol, the deal doesn't make much sense.

They're also talking about using garbage, straw, and rice/wheat stubble, 
etc.  As a gardener, turning stuff like that back into the soil helps 
it; if it's all harvested and broken down for energy, I can't imagine 
that any residue is going to be quite as helpful to the soil. And I can 
only imagine what sort of erosion problems we will likely have from it.

Isn't there a spokesman to info legislators of the negative aspects?  I 
don't think the brewing industry by itself is going to be able to help 
much; there is a segment of our society which couldn't care less about
beer.

Cheers.

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