From: Ellen K. 

Well, anything really basic to a country, they should produce themselves. 
(Like we should produce our own energy.)

IIRC, Brazil wanted to go to alternative fuels so they developed something
using sugar cane.

Your below description is pretty depressing, I hope it doesn't come true.

On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 23:54:59 -0500, "Mark"
 wrote in message :

>
>"Ellen K."  wrote in message
>news:0koas297utmhlpqf39b0pu2r0hbvefoqcq{at}4ax.com...
>> I'm surprised to read that Mexico imports its corn from the US...
>> anybody know whether this is true?
>
>It doesn't really matter, it's a global market. If the USA takes its corn
>out of the food chain to power cars, the price rises. Kellogg's cereal just
>had a 5% drop in profits because the ethanol fools have driven up the price
>of corn; their [Kellogg's] next step will be moving a box of cereal up from
>$4 to $5 to compensate, thus starving out the poor kids in the US as well.
>
>Then the US will up the food stamp allotment (a day late and a dollar short)
>to compensate and we're off on another misguided adventure thanks to the
>"global warmists" 
>

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