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I know when the farmers around me harvest thier corn in October, there is a steady stream of semis, and older grain trucks lugging the 5 miles to the grain elevators, where the corn can be distributed by train car....none of these are especially clean burning modes of transpotation.
This isn't mentioning the large Combines, and tractors traversing the roads, and fields for a solid month, most of which are running thier diesel engines hard, and smoking a bit. Most of this equipment is older and paid off, therefore, the budget conscious farmer can afford to own rather than renting the newer, clean burning equipment.
I live in a fairly big, somewhat flat, and tillable county in NW Ohio. I think I heard in years past, Hancock county, Ohio produces about 6,000,000 bushels of just corn every year....ironically, the new ethonal plant about 6 miles North of my house uses the same amount of corn to produce it's yearly gasoline, and there are currently 7 plants in Ohio alone.
Let's not even talk about the money spent (and passed on to the consumer) on higher feed costs for farm animals, and every product that uses corn.
Truly, this was a big government idea to produce jobs, and increase farm spending all in the effort to make us all more dependent on big government.
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