Comments on: More on Deadly Ethanol Subsidies http://www.openmarket.org/2008/04/25/more-on-deadly-ethanol-subsidies/ The Competitive Enterprise Institute Blog Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:59:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Genetically-Modified Foods Help Environment and Consumers | OpenMarket.org http://www.openmarket.org/2008/04/25/more-on-deadly-ethanol-subsidies/comment-page-1/#comment-50112 Genetically-Modified Foods Help Environment and Consumers | OpenMarket.org Mon, 19 May 2008 22:33:30 +0000 http://www.openmarket.org/?p=3190#comment-50112 [...] ethanol mandates and subsidies – are also driving up food prices, as well as causing worldwide hunger, rioting, and civil unrest, by turning food for the poor into fuel for the rich, in a process that is environmentally [...] [...] ethanol mandates and subsidies – are also driving up food prices, as well as causing worldwide hunger, rioting, and civil unrest, by turning food for the poor into fuel for the rich, in a process that is environmentally [...]

]]> By: R. McDonald http://www.openmarket.org/2008/04/25/more-on-deadly-ethanol-subsidies/comment-page-1/#comment-48866 R. McDonald Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:18:44 +0000 http://www.openmarket.org/?p=3190#comment-48866 Maybe you can answer a question for me. If we end ALL subsidies for American farmers, how are they able to stay in business. What i mean is, WHO is going to buy their crops? Poor families in Haiti? Africa? Asia? The market would correct itself in the long run... farmers would fold, markets would adjust... and so on. But in the short term, farmers would fold, food prices would soar at home, and we would be dependent on foreign sources for foodstuffs. Got any solutions? Thank you, R. McDonald Maybe you can answer a question for me.

If we end ALL subsidies for American farmers, how are they able to stay in business.
What i mean is, WHO is going to buy their crops? Poor families in Haiti? Africa? Asia?
The market would correct itself in the long run… farmers would fold, markets would adjust… and so on.
But in the short term, farmers would fold, food prices would soar at home, and we would be dependent on foreign sources for foodstuffs.

Got any solutions?

Thank you,
R. McDonald

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