re: Dead Zone in Gulf

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I DO believe it is one of the reasons why sometimes in the summer two rigs within a couple of miles of one another at similar depths can have such a radically different fish population, and those two can vary from week to week. As someone who has studied this issue fairly extensively, it should be pointed out that Louisiana's contribution is tiny compared to what comes into the state from upriver sources. And one of the other major environmental farces of our times (and there are many) is to blame for a lot of it. The rush to squeeze corn into fuel has caused a lot of marginal land to be planted in corn, which in turn, needs a lot more fertilizer, which in turn, means a lot more runoff of nutrients. Good for CF and other fertilizer producers, bad overall for the environment. Also less land in the CRP, which impacts waterfowl. This ethanol BS needs to go the way of whale oil and coal tar pitch as a fuel.