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a: Corn ~
b: people food

What:

"Corn is people food. Oil is car food. Not complicated."


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Writer: AlkalineState
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Date: May 12 2014 3:28 PM



a: Corn ~
b: second lawn

What:

"Corn is like this second great American lawn - I mean miles and miles of it, all through the Midwest, and even where I live in Connecticut."


Useful?
Writer: Michael Pollan
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Date: May 29 2015 9:36 PM


Popcorn As Spirit Food

a: Popcorn ~
b: God's Word

What: "Four thousand years ago, God fed his people something he called manna that had the feel of miniature popcorn kernels. God sent manna down from heaven each morning to feed the Israelites as they wandered in the wilderness. Manna was edible only after it had been ground and heated. The Bible tells us that after the grinding and cooking process, the manna tasted like cakes baked with oil."

Useful?
Writer: Steve Popovich
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Date: May 10 2012 3:05 PM



a: Unicorn ~
b: a horse with a penis on its head

What: Sublimated horse sexuality it is.

Useful?
Writer: Lucrezia
LCC:
Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Jan 12 2015 7:55 PM



a: corn starch ~
b: a long pearl necklace

What:

"Corn starch is broken down into individual glucose molecules using various enzymes and acids. A pearl necklace analogy can help explain: Corn starch is like a long pearl necklace. Each individual pearl is a glucose molecule. The glucose molecules are strung together by chemical bonds that create the "pearl necklace", or in technical terms, a glucose polymer."


Useful?
Writer: Hemi Weingarten
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Date: Aug 20 2015 4:31 PM



a: corn starch ~
b: little ball bearings

What:

"This works well for me and I've never had a pizza stick. The corn starch is like little ball bearings under the crust."


Useful?
Writer: troutman
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Date: Aug 20 2015 4:34 PM


Corn Ethanol Is A Joke

a: Corn ethanol ~
b: baseball prospect who is a poor hitter but a bad fielder

What: "As public policy, ethanol is like the joke about the baseball prospect who is a poor hitter but a bad fielder. It doesn't reduce CO2 but it does cost more. Imagine how many subsidies the Beltway would throw at ethanol if the fuel actually had any benefits." Yes indeed. Ethanol fuel mandate are possibly one of the worst idea in American History.

Useful?
Writer: WSJ Editor
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Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Aug 8 2011 12:10 AM


Corn Ethanol Is Like Making Nickels From Quarters

a: Corn ethanol ~
b: making nickels from quarters

What: "As it was explained to me quite eloquently one time, ethanol is like the govt. running out of nickels and saying, "we've got all these quarters.. lets start stamping nickels out of them." You have a product that has greater value in it's natural state and your gonna pay tons of money to manufacture it into a product of lesser value. "

Useful?
Writer: Zmcflog -
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Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Aug 8 2011 12:35 AM


Corn Ethanol 3 gallons gas=4 gallons EtOH

a: Corn Ethanol 3 gallons gas ~
b: 4 gallons EtOH

What: "Not to mention the overwhelming amount of water that it takes to produce. It has been said, the net effect of ethanol, is like using 3 gallons of gasoline to produce 4 gallons of ethanol. This is absolutely ridiculous and makes absolutely no sense!!"

Useful?
Writer: Adam Wilkinson
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Date: Aug 8 2011 12:26 AM


Corn Ethanol no good?

a: plowing grassland for corn ethanol ~
b: burning the Mona Lisa for firewood

What: "Plowing up our nation's last remnants of native grasslands to grow more corn for ethanol is like burning the Mona Lisa for firewood,"

Useful?
Writer: Julie Sibbing
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Date: Aug 7 2011 11:55 PM



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