Gas Prices Soaring,How Has This Changed Your Life?

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I complain a whole lot more, that's for sure. but we live in a rural area so... though, we do try to get everything done in town after work so we don't have to come back

 

[pruitt514]

Gas is way to High!!!

 

[6chix]

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No I don't think it's crazy at all. Every gallon of fuel we produce here makes it less that we have to import from some other country.

Ethanol is the worst idea EVER. It takes more energy to produce 1 gallon of ethanol than ever can be recovered from it even at 100% effiency. Basicly the whole ethanol scam is a giant govt subsidy for the big corn farmers. Do you realize that when you burn a 10% ethanol blend in your car your gas mileage goes down 10-15%. So really we drive up the price of food and really don't use less fuel we actually use more fuel to go the same distance...LOL.....Huge Giant Govt Scam.

 

[Katy]

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No I don't think it's crazy at all. Every gallon of fuel we produce here makes it less that we have to import from some other country.

Ethanol is the worst idea EVER. It takes more energy to produce 1 gallon of ethanol than ever can be recovered from it even at 100% effiency. Basicly the whole ethanol scam is a giant govt subsidy for the big corn farmers. Do you realize that when you burn a 10% ethanol blend in your car your gas mileage goes down 10-15%. So really we drive up the price of food and really don't use less fuel we actually use more fuel to go the same distance...LOL.....Huge Giant Govt Scam.

 

[ChicksterJo]

I've got to agree that I would not want to support ethanol. Even though it would be good to produce more fuel/energy domestically we need to find better ways than ethanol. That's like clearing the Amazon rainforest to develop sugar cane plantations for ethanol.

 

[Brody's Broodello]

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Love it! We could call it The Great Chick-in!!!!!!

 

[Luvducks]

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I Agree with you!

 

[Katy]

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I just don't get people's reluctance to support it. It's a renewable resource. It's home-grown...doesn't have to be imported. It doesn't take more energy to produce it than it delivers......that may have been true at the beginning, but isn't anymore.

I don't agree with your analogy of the clearing of the rain forests......this ground is already in crop production.

People are always saying we should support our American companies and not other countries.....what's different about supporting American farmers?

 

[Boyd]

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I just don't get people's reluctance to support it. It's a renewable resource. It's home-grown...doesn't have to be imported. It doesn't take more energy to produce it than it delivers......that may have been true at the beginning, but isn't anymore.

I don't agree with your analogy of the clearing of the rain forests......this ground is already in crop production.

People are always saying we should support our American companies and not other countries.....what's different about supporting American farmers?

Nothing Katy, its just the "average" american is so far removed from agriculture that they literally have no clue.

 

[Brody's Broodello]

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Actually, we sold off the mowers last year. We had not used them in 3 years, mice made nests in them. I use my organic mowers. I rotate the horses & sheep for the grass. And the sheep & goats for the weeds & vines. Ducks, chickens & geese clean up the slack. If you have a weed that won't die, instead of a pesticide, I use rock salt & water. Either put salt on it, wait till it rains, or pour salt water over it. It will die, and be ok for animals as well. Becareful if you put the salt out, the organic mowers will much it up asap. They need salt in their diet, especially the stuff you have just put out! lol Salt water does a good job of killing the grass under the fenceline & between concrete.