I overheard someone mentioning that the price of eggs was starting to skyrocket. He was suggesting that maybe people weren't raising as many chickens as they used to (but why???). I mentioned the increase in the price of corn, due to ethanol production. And yes, this time, we are talking chicken feed.
It takes 450 pounds of corn to produce the ethanol to fill one SUV tank. That's enough corn to feed one person for a year. Plus, it takes more than one gallon of fossil fuel -- oil and natural gas -- to produce one gallon of ethanol. After all, corn must be grown, fertilized, harvested and trucked to ethanol producers -- all of which are fuel-using activities. And, it takes 1,700 gallons of water to produce one gallon of ethanol. On top of all this, if our total annual corn output were put to ethanol production, it would reduce gasoline consumption by 10 or 12 percent.
I don't know about you, but I think that's way beyond chicken feed.
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