What a GREAT WIN for our LSU Tigers against another top 25 ranked team. Auburn was completely overwhelmed by LSU, even with their top rusher and corner back out of the game. With Kenny Hillard (nephew of the great Dalton Hillard who played at LSU and for the Saints), LSU now has 6 tailbacks that can be used in games! What incredible depth at every position!
With the loss by Oklahoma, LSU moved up to #1 in the USA Today/Coaches Poll. They are still ranked #1 in the latest BCS poll, with Alabama #2. The media is now REALLY starting to "hype" the "Game of the Decade" on November 5th between LSU and Alabama in Tuscaloosa. The game time has been announced for a 7 pm CST kickoff, on CBS. This game will be LSU's 7th National TV showing this year!
And, what can you say about the Saints game tonight! Even though the Colts are hurting without Peyton Manning, a 62-7 score is way more lopsided than I'm sure anyone would have guessed!
Back to ethanol issues now.........here is yet another article that questions the impact that the manufacture of ethanol is having on the world's food supply. It's a little lengthy, so I just posted the first few paragraphs, plus the link if you'd like to read the entire article.
How does ethanol affect our food supply?
Experts say it is a difficult question with many answer 9:56 PM, Oct. 22, 2011 |
Written by Lauren Mills | IowaWatch
Pumping that golden elixir — corn-ethanol — into the gas tank can do a world of good, or so goes the argument.
It relieves the U.S. from dependency on foreign oil, some reports say, and it reduces the pollution spewed out the tailpipe. But those benefits may a take high human toll.
More than 80 percent of the world’s supply of corn comes from five countries, with the U.S. leading the pack by supplying more than half the world’s exports, according to a study released Oct. 13 at the World Food Prize summit in Des Moines.
Three years ago, the world went through a food crisis generated, in part, by high prices, and experts still debate the extent to which ethanol production should be blamed.
There was enough food on the market, but high prices reduced many of the world’s poor to hunger, said Josette Sheeran, the director of the United Nation’s World Food Program. Contributing to the crisis were countries that cut exports of in-demand crops. (Read the entire article at the link below)
LInk: http://www.press-citizen.com/article/20111023/NEWS01/310210033/How-does-ethanol-affect-our-food-supply-?odyssey=nav|head
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