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Will the bigger part of the U.S. corn production on 2008 be used for food or fuel?

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Settlement details:As reported by a major mainstream news source.

 
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food
71%
fuel
29%
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Initial likelihoods: food: 50%, fuel: 50%

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Created Sun 10th Feb 2008 2:21am PST by turbophon
Edited Sat 5th Apr 2008 6:53am PST by ryanj
Suspended Fri 2nd Jan 6:54pm PST by newswrangler[Power User]: Flagged by super user: Suspended manually on January 2, 2009.

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carlbeeth predicted food (H$100 at 80%)
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Comments (10)

Nice question man :-D
posted 1 year ago
  2 Erik
What is fodd? And, how will anyone ever know what the end use is? I live in Iowa, Cargill is the biggest buyer of corn, here. They produce food and fuel...I'm not sure if they're in the fodd business, though.
posted 1 year ago
  3 shadowfax
it is short for "fodder" as corn is sometimes used for.
posted 1 year ago
  4 Erik
<shadowfax....I was thinking that may be the case. But it still begs the question: Is fodd (presumably a sort of text message short hand for fodder) food for the cow, or fuel for the deadly methane that cows emit and that Algore has warned us about?
posted 1 year ago
  5 Erik
I trust that y'all can see my tongue firmly in my cheek but, at the same time, see why I think this market should be voided...or at least, be re-written.
posted 1 year ago
  6 shadowfax
yea, I hope the powers that be will edit the title, or we will have some food for fodder here.
Erik, I like how you wrote manbearpig's name.(see South Park)
posted 1 year ago
Guys it's simple, look at the options:
1. FOOD
2. FUEL

Ummmm, I think that settles it ;-P
I DO understand why you guys think it needs to be re-worded, so flag it and ask hubdub to have it re-worded, but I think the creators' intention is clear: Food or Fuel :-D

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posted 1 year ago
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lucidstates (dismayed)
posted 1 year ago
  9 Erik
lucid....I flagged it when I posted my comment, I'm not as dumb as I look
posted 1 year ago
  10 ryanj
Ok sorry about the late response, market is now correctly worded. I'd seen this market but then Battlestar Galactica came on and I obviously couldn't miss Starbucks next appearance...

Regards,

Ryan
Hubdub US Politics Content Editor
posted 1 year ago

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