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**Xavsnipe** · 09-13-14, 06:35 PM

Finance is

**deathgodusmc** · 09-13-14, 06:37 PM

Originally Posted by Xavsnipe

Finance is

Only when it comes time to put that check in the bank. Shit i would just be happy if my check was correct 2 weeks in a row.

**deathgodusmc** · 09-13-14, 06:40 PM

Thats another thing pisses me off and i've brought it to their attention in the past but it happening again. If i take a contract from you with the agreement of being paid the following friday my check should not be missing money because your client is on credit hold. Thats your damn problem until i start billing the customer directly.

**dex71** · 09-13-14, 07:03 PM

So what Xav is trying to say is that he is buying a round at QuakeCon next year.

And that's it. No more corn is getting shipped down there. We need it for our gas tanks like God intended.

**salty99** · 09-15-14, 03:07 PM

Originally Posted by dex71

So what Xav is trying to say is that he is buying a round at QuakeCon next year.

And that's it. No more corn is getting shipped down there. We need it for our gas tanks like God intended.

You best be there too! My first year at QC this year and I didn't get to meet the infamous Dex

or DG, Dusty, Texan, sheriff, Hub, kracker...well nobody cares about kracker

It makes you think though about corn, we've engineered the crops so well that we don't even need to eat it anymore - just toss it in the gas task.

**dex71** · 09-15-14, 03:52 PM

Originally Posted by salty99

You best be there too! My first year at QC this year and I didn't get to meet the infamous Dex

or DG, Dusty, Texan, sheriff, Hub, kracker...well nobody cares about kracker

It makes you think though about corn, we've engineered the crops so well that we don't even need to eat it anymore - just toss it in the gas task.

Millions are starving to death around the World, and we put food in our gas tanks. Saving the Planet, Democrat style.

**deathgodusmc** · 09-15-14, 06:11 PM

Originally Posted by dex71

Millions are starving to death around the World, and we put food in our gas tanks. Saving the Planet, Democrat style.

Is it really anyones fault other then the individual that in year 2014 people still haven't moved near a grocery store?

**dex71** · 09-15-14, 06:24 PM

Originally Posted by deathgodusmc

Is it really anyones fault other then the individual that in year 2014 people still haven't moved near a grocery store?

Should the price of food be higher once they get to the store because Democrats decided to buy votes from farmers?

We pay our farmers to not grow certain crops, but pay them an incredibly inflated price for corn so that we can add even more money to it and have it work in our gas tanks. Ethanol also requires much more energy to produce than it ever saves. It's also cheaper at the pump because of all of the subsidies. If you had to pay full price at the pump, it would be double the price of petroleum based gas.

**AetheLove** · 09-15-14, 07:15 PM

Originally Posted by dex71

Should the price of food be higher once they get to the store because Democrats decided to buy votes from farmers?

We pay our farmers to not grow certain crops, but pay them an incredibly inflated price for corn so that we can add even more money to it and have it work in our gas tanks. Ethanol also requires much more energy to produce than it ever saves. It's also cheaper at the pump because of all of the subsidies. If you had to pay full price at the pump, it would be double the price of petroleum based gas.

Totally in favor of removing (or phasing out) ethanol/corn subsidies.

I also have a long list of other subsidies that should be eliminated.

I'm not against subsidizing new tech or incubating new industry, but ethanol is long-past the point where it's either cost-effective or it's not. It's time to take the crutches away and see if it can walk in its own.

There's plenty of Democrats that deserve a boot in the butt on this one, but Corporate Welfare and pandering in Iowa is definitely a bi-partisan vice. Reds and Blues are all bedfellows on this one.

That's ok though - if you line up the butts, I'm sure there'll be plenty of boots available.

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**dex71** · 09-15-14, 07:54 PM

The farmers are all addicted to Ethanol, or at least the cash it means to them. It's become its own industry. From the growers to the processors to the lobbyists, there are a lot of people whos primary income revolves around putting food into gas tanks.

It can't and most certainly wouldn't stand on its own. If people had to pay the full price at the pump, no one would sell even a thimble full. And at the end of the day, it costs far more in energy than it saves.

Ethanol is a scam that is here to stay because we are at the point where it would be political suicide for any of the local assholes (D or R) to threaten its existance or even suggest something better than food to use (such as grasses and other agro-tech that has been studied).