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   jeffdanziger said, 4 months ago

   Danziger on vacation July 1 -10

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   parkersinthehouse said, 4 months ago

   i love you man
   your art and your mind
   if you’re gone july 1-10
   i’m cartoon moratoriuming july 1-10
   have a beautiful recess

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   jkshaw said, 4 months ago

   IWe will miss you very much, but do get a good recharge, come back with many new needle-sharp ideas.

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   dtroutma said, 4 months ago

   Of course four of every five ears is going to make ethanol for our overweight vehicles, requiring 5 gallons of gas to produce every gallon of ethanol, all to free us from “foreign oil”.

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   Tigger said, 4 months ago

   Try every Five Years, if it were every five ears, we wouldn’t be so fat.

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   oldlegodad said, 4 months ago

   ethanol is ruining lawnmowers and outboard motors. it separates out and absorbs H2O which gunks up carbs/injectors.What a waste of federal subsidies…less FOOD for people.

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   Gladius said, 4 months ago

   I don’t have any info on the engine stuff old, however, there is plenty of research showing the energy loss in corn ethanol production. Brazil makes ethanol production work but they are using sugar cane. The higher sugar content makes the difference.
   I definitely agree that the food costs inherent in ethanol production have not been adequately considered.

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   parkersinthehouse said, 4 months ago

   i love learning all this stuff - who knew from ethanol, and yet trout, old and glad, the conjoined triplets, have really enlightened this one’s knowledge stash. thanks you three.

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   pbarnrob said, 4 months ago

   In the seventies, Mother Earth News ran articles about farmers whose cost of growing corn was upside down with the prices, building solar stills against the South side of the barn, running their corn mash through several times to get burnable ethanol, all at a minimal cost. Start the tractor on gasoline, switch a valve to run on straight ‘e’. The industrial scale of this and the impact on world food prices illustrate the lack of forethought behind the rush. And of course, we’ll probably need that ethanol soon, to forget the worst of the side effects.