If you read here, you know that one of my most common rants is the fact that the govt is paying farmers to drain the Ogallala Aquifer, one of the largest sources of fresh water in the entire world.

 Well, others are starting to notice, as per today’s Denver Post. Over 30% of Kansas’ water wells, that rely on the aquifer have gone dry.

THIS, to grow corn that is turned into ethanol that we don’t need. Ethanol, that takes more energy to create than it produces. Even when oiled was high priced it didn’t make sense, now it’s criminal.

It all started when GW and The Dick needed the farm votes to support their ‘War based on LIES’. The kind of lies that Dotard made into an art form. If you support our war, we’ll support ethanol, with Hundreds of Billions in subsidies. And the farmers(R) got their ‘starter drug’ that has them totally addicted.

BUT, it’s not just a bad policy, it’s a DISASTER that will future generations will pay for with their lives, as this amazing gift of water dries up, WASTED for corn/ethanol we don’t need,

Wow, who can’t see what’s coming? Other than the ignorant sheep, that is.

The Ogallala-High Plains Aquifer is one of the world’s largest groundwater sources, extending from South Dakota down through the Texas Panhandle across portions of eight states. Its water supports $35 billion in crop production each year.

But farmers are pulling water out of the Ogallala faster than rain and snow can recharge it. Between 1900 and 2008 they drained some 89 trillion gallons from the aquifer — equivalent to two-thirds of Lake Erie. Depletion is threatening drinking water supplies and undermining local communities already struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic, the opioid crisis, hospital closures, soaring farm losses and rising suicide rates.

In Kansas, “Day Zero” — the day wells run dry — has arrived for about 30% of the aquifer. Within 50 years, the entire aquifer is expected be 70% depleted.

But those figures hide massive government payments to farmers. Federal subsidies increased by a remarkable 65% this year, totaling $37.2 billion. This sum includes money for lost exports from escalating trade wars. Corn prices were too low to cover the cost of growing it this year, with federal subsidies making up the difference.

Thanks, Dotard, and your Repub henchmen. Draining the aquifer AND the Treasury to insure Repub votes. Sickening, but SO Republican, as LYING and mismanagement are their Hallmarks, and this is the PERFECT example.

And you wonder WHY I can’t stand ‘em?