I say both. As environmentalists and other loonies try to convince people like me that our dependence on petroleum products is BAD BAD BAD, and that we need to seek alternative fuels (which, I concede, we do), they're putting all their chips on CORN. The same corn that feeds the cows I like to butcher and eat. The same corn that feeds the cows I like to milk so I may have something in which to dunk the cookies I baked on Friday. The same corn that feeds the cows I like to milk so I can make ice cream to enjoy in this horrid Florida heat. Environmentalists and other loonies have no right whatsoever to complain that the costs of their everyday food products are increasing rapidly and appallingly. YOU BROUGHT THIS ON US! You, Willie Nelson, and you're ethanol stations. You didn't take into consideration that using a food source to fuel your Hummer would mean that instead of getting ten ears of corn for $1 that I'd only be able to get four. And that my steak and my milk would cost more because farmers have to spend more to feed their cows.

Recently, the price of corn has increased because it is used to make the biofuel ethanol.

With all the noise the MSM makes about the price of gas, why are they not screaming louder about the cost of that $4.29 gallon of milk I bought over the weekend? And, if I'm spending $8+ per pound for meat, I want that meat to be veal, not just cow. Why aren't people outraged at the way we're all getting raped in the grocery store? Does anyone even utilize ethanol for fuel? Why are we wasting our valuable corn making ethanol when hardly any vehicles are equipped to run off it? I want my steak at a more reasonable price, and I want to be able to afford a half gallon of ice cream (currently not in my budget because rising milk costs have priced ice cream right out of my grasp) so I can wash my steak down with a milk shake. Their stupid ethanol crusade is going to hurt my family and people in even lower financial brackets than my own. Corn is supposed to be a cheap food that we can buy and fill our bellies. But you're wasting it producing ethanol. You people suck.

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