Comments on: POLICY WONKERY: WHERE U.S. SUGAR MEETS FOOTBALL

By: chg

chg — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:48:15 +0000

And by “be a dick”, he means pointing out that he completely misundersood the reasoning behind the state’s decision.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:09:03 +0000

16:

Hey, no need to be a dick. I shouldn’t have even brought it up.

By: Not You

Not You — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:29:22 +0000

@5:
They’re buying the land back to keep sugar from being grown on it because growing sugar there is destroying the Everglades. So keeping on growing sugar, but instead making it ethanol instead of using corn is still a stupid idea.

Now, if you want to advocate using the newly freed land to let switchgrass grow wild, and occasionally harvest THAT to produce celulosic Ethanol, well that wouldn’t have all the nasty fertilizers and constant development which the sugar would have, would yield as much ethanol as the corn would, would require less energy input, and still achieve the goal of helping the everglades return to a more natural state.

But hey, what do I know? I’m just some random dumbass on the interwebs.

By: Whohah

Whohah — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:28:16 +0000

Orson — I smell a lengthy Sporting Blog piece, or hell, a lengthy EDSBS piece. Go all “Brian” or “SMQ” on this MFer. It would be interesting to see what the college participation rates for these kids would be otherwise, amongst other factors.

By: Out of Conference

Out of Conference — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:02:46 +0000

#13 – Well, dogfighting we did last year. I wonder if the statute of limitations for beating three different groups of Bulldogs last year has run out.

By: yoyofutbawl

yoyofutbawl — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:12:40 +0000

I thought dog & cockfights were why Stephen Garcia chose USCe.

By: poguemahone

poguemahone — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:43:10 +0000

Hey now, we have the steroids and growth hormones market cornered up here in Ohio (see Katzenmoyer, Andy

By: blon57

blon57 — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:27:35 +0000

So this explains why Florida continues to be one of the top states to produce extraordinarily talented players each year. I believe California and Texas are the other two top producers. How do they do it every year? Facilities? Training programs? Bigger supply of growth hormones and steroids?

By: Out of Conference

Out of Conference — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:58:27 +0000

Wait until you see how the State of South Carolina’s crackdown on dog-fighting will impact Clemson’s recruiting.

By: yoyofutbawl

yoyofutbawl — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:51:49 +0000

Is Captain Peter Peachfuzz still running the Corps of Engineers?

By: meatybob

meatybob — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:48:42 +0000

Cane far better than corn? No, not by a mile. Better yes, but billions of other issues. Brazil heavily subsides their own sugar cane production, so it is not like sugar cane is today’s Texas tea sweetener. Also, corn grows everywhere, like the entire middle part of the country, and it can handle something called “winter”, sugar only grows in swamps in LA and Fla. Lastly, the US gov’t has historically been crazy protectionist of sugar, at the expense of other american industries. So US sugar, be gone with ye.

By: Bobby Decatur

Bobby Decatur — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:46:44 +0000

*Oh Hermano Where Art Thou

By: MaconDawg

MaconDawg — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:40:24 +0000

Yeah, and possum chasing just doesn’t really suffice as a substitute. That’s why Tennessee focuses its recruiting out of state.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:39:20 +0000

You know, the federal government could use some of the corn subsidy money to pay US Sugar to keep planting sugar cane, but sell it for ethanol production instead of refining to sugar. Sugar cane is far better for ethanol production than corn (just ask Brazil) but it just doesn’t grow well outside of south Florida. But that would make sense, and we can’t have that, can we?

Alternate option: Annex Cuba. Sugar cane grows fucking everywhere there.

By: Allahver Fist

Allahver Fist — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:39:08 +0000

Pretty good read here.