36 Replies to “We Don’t Need No Stinking French Fry Grease”

  1. So what if Ethanol was the reason we grew more corn last year, there by having a “banner” year. If more land is being converted to grow corn then it’s not being used to grow other food stuff. Farmers getting $6-7 per bushel distorts the market and all food prices go up.

  2. Drought + ethenol production = food shortages.
    Hey kids, arncha glad gummint is in charge of your food supply? I mean it’s not like they FXXked up before.

  4. You know what this means, right?
    Time for McDonald’s to switch back to frying in animal fat! Mmm, mmm, mmm.
    Take that, militant vegetarians.

  5. “but the bottom line is that without corn ethanol, there would have been no banner year last year.”
    How does one define this type of logic?
    As an ignorant peasant,all I see is another unintended consequence of government interference in the marketplace. Perhaps the more subtle nuances have escaped me.
    Just another example of the consequences of electing an amateur to office.

  6. WTF ??
    “French Fry Grease” isn’t used to make ethanol.
    Corn oil is seldom used for fuel or cooking “French Fries”.
    Errors like that blow your cred.
    Corn is mainly used for ethanol, feed for industrial meat, and corn sugar for junk food.
    If you use any of those products you’re part of the problem.

  7. But isn’t the EPA suing(taxing) gas companies for not using ANY ethanol? Oh wait.That’s celuosic ethanol,which comes from grasses and trees,and has exactly zero percent production.According to the child reader,than all of the mid-west should be immediately plowed under,(what ain’t dust),and start planting them grasses(which are inedible)and palm trees! See? Problem solved.Now the farmer can get 100 bucks/tree,and 50 bucks/bushel grass.A triple banner year! And get your wheelbarrows to carry the money to pay for a box of corn flakes.And look at all the jobs somebody else created,for real food corn farmers in Brazil,Canada,hell,maybe even the opium poppy growers in Af’stan.Ain’t commie economics wonderful.In two years time,IMHO,the numbers of people going from Canada to the US to buy food will be reversed 180 degrees,except for all the people who created the jobs,of course.

  8. Oh yeah.And what’s wrong with french fry grease,as long as it is from animals.

  9. Stocking up on wheel weights, salt, and a few other important things. Like actual diesel fuel from dead dinosaurs, which doesn’t FREEZE in the winter.
    Your average biodiesel has to be chunked up with a Sawzall so you can get it out of the tank and into a bucket for melting, when ambient temp is -10F.
    In a hungry world, burning food is a sin.

  10. northie, you are dumber than a stack of balsa wood axe handles. Does the term “metaphor” hold no meaning for you?

  12. Man. All those Yanks have to do is look north into Ontario for an effective and efficient green energy policy.
    I mean, come hail or snow, drought or floods, Ol’ Dildo’s got things under control.
    Escalating electricity bills? Bah! Nothing a few more panels and windmills won’t cure.
    Crop failures? Hey, just stick the tax-payer for some risk-management cash.

  13. I think I’ve actually explained this to you before, north_of_60. The title is a catchall for biofuel fiascos.

  14. “Does the term “metaphor” hold no meaning for you?”
    ~gordinkneehill
    Metaphors, sarcasm, and irony are lost on people with sociopathic personality disorder.
    They lack the empathy to make the connection allowing them to understand words within the context of the social interaction.

  15. Just out of curiosity, has the acreage devoted to wheat production gone up in western Canada since the CWB monopoly ended?

  16. albertaclipper at July 26, 2012 3:01 PM
    Looks like it around my town.
    A lot less rape seed, way more acres of wheat than last year.

  18. Imagine this great example of government interference.
    It is mandated that all houses must be painted pink.
    This will be “great for the economy” because it will put painters to work, and create more jobs for paint companies, paint supply companies, ladder companies, etc. Who could possibly be against this?
    Well, every other company which could have done business with the disposable income people HAD to spend on painting their house. What people didn’t spend on roofing, or landscaping, or a vacation, or fixing a car, or TV, wine, etc. now had to go to their pink house.
    And you would wonder, was it a coincidence that the painter’s union and the paint manufacturer’s association were having so many secret meetings with the government a while back?
    yes, it is a wealth transfer. The result of a corrupted government.

  19. The title is a catchall for biofuel fiascos.
    Then why doesn’t it say
    “We Don’t Need No Stinking Biofuel” ???
    Making fuel from used fryer oil is one of the best things we can do with this otherwise ‘waste’ product.
    Confusing biodiesel made from used fryer oil with ethanol made from corn is like confusing cats and dogs because they’re both pets.
    Your average biodiesel has to be chunked up with a Sawzall so you can get it out of the tank and into a bucket for melting, when ambient temp is -10F.
    ROTFL. I run biodiesel blends to thirty below without problems. Stupid people will always have problems, even with the simplest technology.

  20. metaphor – A figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common.
    “We Don’t Need No Stinking French Fry Grease” is not a metaphor.

  21. …feed for industrial meat… north of 60
    That ” industrial meat ” you criticize is affordable meat, because the animals are corn fed, which is a more nutrient dense feed than grass.
    By the way, your cute term ” industrial meat ” could far better be described as feed lot meat, but I understand the problems that ethical behavior, such as accuracy and truthfulness in labeling pose insurmountable problems for the ” industrial meat “‘s crowd radical agenda of driving up food prices.
    Free range meat is usually twice as costly, as ” industrial meat “, as you put it, regardless of whether it is chicken or beef. Free range pork has other problems, namely trichinosis, which has been essentially eliminated in North America, thanks to confined feeding which limits the chances the hog will ingest the parasite causing trichinosis.
    Beef cattle in North America spend only the last few months of their lives on feed lots. And ” organic beef ” has no restrictions on corn in the animals diet.
    By the way, your comment ” Corn oil is seldom used for fuel ” is true, but irrelevant: land that that can grow soybeans usually can also raise corn. Most bio-diesel is soybean oil based, so land devoted to growing soy reduces corn production from what it otherwise would be, driving up corn prices. Biodiesel is similar to corn based ethanol: both raise food prices.
    French fry grease is a metaphor for the diversion of food that could feed people to fuel usage, instead.

  22. Personally attacking people who don’t share your beliefs is so Muslim. It’s not a good trait to be emulated.

  23. Making fuel from used fryer oil is one of the best things we can do with this otherwise ‘waste’ product.
    That’s pure assertion. How is making fuel superior to making soaps and detergent from the fat?
    Don’t people need to be clean?

  24. Northof, think you should let this one rest. Humor’s not your long suit.
    Unless you are a big fan of turning corn into ethanol…..in which case let ‘er rip. I’d like to see how you justify it.
    Especially if you can make your argument logically robust! (arguing does appear to be one of your strong suits)

  25. When the population of Mexico started to complain that corn normally used in tortilla production was being diverted for ethanol nobody batted an eye. Now the subject has come home for the American leftoids so it should be interesting on who or what they will blame the drought on.

  27. I’m going to play the devil’s advocate here and I know I’m going to be trashed but…..
    Doesn’t the farmer have the right to plant and grow what he wants? Doesn’t he have the right to sell his harvest to whomever he wants for whatever purpose they deem fit?
    If he grows corn and sells it for biofuel production, isn’t that an expression of liberty and personal choice?
    OK, so I’m going away now.

  29. good god, don’t drag woody into this…
    imagine the angst, and the indecision, and the …

  30. Ralph – problem is, you are forcing citizens to buy his product. The US was founded on personal liberty. See the problem?

  31. Doesn’t the farmer have the right to plant and grow what he wants?
    ~Ralph
    Why yes, yes he does, for now.
    The farmer chooses to grow corn for ethanol because the government has a political agenda dedicated to spending taxpayer backed borrowed money to buy that corn at premium prices.
    What do you suppose happens if Obama is re-elected with that same agenda and can’t borrow the money to pay the farmers to grow corn at the prices the government is paying today?
    Do you think Obama will take the right the farmer has to plant and grow what the farmer wants away?
    I think Obama would use his EPA to make these short sighted farmers a ‘deal they cannot refuse’.
    I think Obama would use the EPA and it’s “Farm Dust” regulations to make the farmer grow what Obama wants the farmer to grow by giving the farmers who are now growing corn for ethanol an environmental exemption from violating the EPA Farm Dust regulations if they continue to cultivate corn for ethanol on the same number of acres as they did when they got premium prices.
    The difference would be that they only get pennies on the dollars they are getting now.

  32. north_of_60 “We Don’t Need No Stinking French Fry Grease” is not a metaphor.
    Why not? It’s an implied comparison between French Fry Grease and any other random alternate fuel. In its broadest definition metaphor means using any figures of speach. Humour is also present but you seem to lack the cultural acuity to pick up on it. Perhaps a cultural barrier? Perhaps a species barrier?

  33. Take away the proteins, you take away the fight. Lenin/Stalin/Mao etc all knew. Control the message, corner the dissenters, tell the lie over and over. get the media onside, useful idiots, Vuoila/shazam, instant totalitarism. America, you are at the crossroads, don’t take the slick orators route.

  34. The price of tortillas and other corn products has been artificially high in Mexico for about a decade. Many of the farmers near Culiacan, Sinaloa are growing corn for export to the USA.

  35. “Take away the proteins, you take away the fight.” bartinsky, if only you knew how right you are.

  36. north of 60 – I guess I’m going to have to explain this one more time. Grain corn in the wet milling process has 3 – THREE products: 1)corn starch, 2) distillers wet grains, 3) corn oil. Corn starch can then be further processed to glucose, and then up to either hi-fructose sweetener or to ethanol. Distillers grains wet or dry are sold to livestock producers (mostly cattle) for feed. Corn oil is I hope self explanitory!

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