July 25, 2008

News: cheap gas, cheaper bread, WDGS and more

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Instead of four different blog posts today - here's one linking to some good articles:

From The Hill - Gas cheaper because of ethanol
Ethanol is keeping gas prices as much as 40 cents cheaper, according to Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), one of the Senate’s top supporters of corn-based renewable fuels.

From InsideAg - Give us our cheaper bread
In his blog, Successful Farming's John Walter discusses lower corn (and oil) prices. And asks: Where is the point where prices break for a loaf of bread or a tank of gas? Be sure to check out the corn future chart he pasted in.

From Nebraska Farmer - Research Geared to Easy Storage of WDGS
The goal is to expand storage options and perfect feeding with low quality forages, which will twice as many cattle to be in the same pasture without damaging range health. (For more on WDGS, click here.)

From Kansas City InfoZine - Ethanol: Good News for Kansas
Kansas Lieutenant Governor Mark Parkinson writes that Ethanol is here to stay and this is good news for all of us.

From USA Today - Best ideas are ideology-free
Conservative columnist Cal Thomas and liberal Democratic strategist Bob Beckel agree with T. Boone Pickens: We need to do something about foreign oil.

From USA Today - Ethanol offsets oil prices
Bob Dinneen reminds us that without biofuels, we’d be paying even more for gasoline.

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