Originally Posted By: Bryanccfshr
That and release some acreage for food
The problem is that when there isnt sure money for these crops from the ethanol subsidy, and especially if corm prices drop, we will not see more acreage for food. What we will see is acreage going to land developers to put tracts of mcmansions that are ugly, inefficient, and poorly made. Then we will hit a food crisis (the population is not getting lower or skinnier), and will have to import more of that too.
McMansions have destroyed much of NJ and elsewhere. They are as much a plague on the countryside as anything else. It is going to happen everywhere. Builders need to make a profit too, right? Then the national association of realtors will be looking for a subsidy, and at the expense of our farmers we will just have another subsidy to someone else.