Donnelly, D-2nd District, conducted a renewable fuels roundtable at the Inventrek business incubator in Kokomo on Wednesday.
“The goal is to make Indiana the alternative energy capital of the world,” Donnelly said. “Our goal is to make this district the center for alternative energy in the state.”
Donnelly said Indiana has to have cutting-edge technology when it comes to alternative fuels for the future.
The article mentions the effect of ethanol on the food supply - at its conclusion. Meanwhile, the Times of London devotes a lot of space to a United States Department of
Agriculture.
The price of meat is set to rise in America as the nation’s helter-skelter dash to convert corn into road fuel begins to take its toll on the supply of food.
The US Department of Agriculture has said that meat supply will fall this year because of the high cost of feed. Output of beef, pork and chicken is expected to decline by one billion pounds as farmers react to the soaring cost of feeding their livestock.
Typically, meat production in the United States rises by about 2 per cent a year, but the pressure from American ethanol producers manufacturing road fuel from corn has sent the price of maize soaring to $4 a bushel.
I posted earlier stories about the weaknesses and dangers of an ethanol only program. Nothing seems to have made that policy better. Hoever, I have not seen much reporting on the problems outside of an article in the Muncie Star-Press. The London Times' article shows how how anemic was the Muncie Star-Press.
That all said, I think farmers ought to find this an opportunity to return to a grass fed program - at least with beef.
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