The Ethanol Papers - Paperturn manuscript - Flipbook - Page 466
Well, let me move past Starbucks and their lousy regular coffee. Your editorial
bemoans the loss of so much of the beautiful natural American grassland. You
wrote: "When prairie is plowed under to grow corn it becomes a barren landscape."
Actually, the bleak word picture you've created is quite wrong. When prairie is
plowed under to grow corn this is the true picture:
Now, let me juxtapose the picture of what happens when prairie is plowed under
to grow corn with this picture of what happens when America's natural landscape is used to lift petroleum oil out of the ground:
