RE: Does this help? The sooner USA phases out those incredibly INEFFICIENT and EXPENSIVE corn (biofuel) subsidies the better!
Only a tiny--and disputed--% of energy net is "created" by pouring megaBILLIONS of dollars down the old cornholles.
Of course, valuable & irreplaceable fertilizer & gasoline plus megadoses of pesticides, water & oxygen are used up for this sheer WASTE.
The cornporate welfare sytem $ propping up fuel-farms makes Solyndra & other solar $ boondoggles look like Monopoly money. At least they theoretically were for a product efficient & nontoxic.
The fact is: the less potash used now, the better. Store as much as possible for later generations who we presume will also need to be fed before more environmentally sustainable farming methods are taken up.
Is this anti-market & anti-Allana? Not in the slightest.
In a freer nonsubsidized market--with lower potash demand and less "gourmet chow crops" for foreign markets--every producer with a natural production price advantage such as Allana would get current investment money and market share while others, more expensive & less efficient, would fall by the wayside--be tabled for later production when needed just as was done with many precious metals mines back during their market & price downswings.
It's a slightly different way of looking at things--instead of competing to be the Walmarts of potash mines, companies would sustain higher prices to produce the most efficient & best now of the Macy's.
Rampant speculation as the only governmentally approved means for investment of ones future retirement funds has sustained unsustainably criminal splurges & thefts of money and resources FROM OUR future KIDS & GRANDKIDS, & their grandkids. The coinciding mentality of insane wasteful generation of FAKE MONEY to prop up unsustainable government services with their assumption of unnatural roles in human society has led Europe, Japan, & USA to THE BRINK because the govts will CONSUME ALL OUR PERSONAL RESOURCES LATER in order to feed their enfeebled but vicious systems NOW.
SOONER than we are comfortable with imagining, all our human, social & military "SERVICES" will have to be done radically differently and BETTER becasue they clearly generate UNSUSTAINABLE DEFICITS in their current form and NOBODY EXISTS who can pay for it all.
So, on the PLUS SIDE, we foolish countries will have to draw upon our collective genius, hard work and SELF UNDERSTANDING of how decent progressive survival on Earth is to be done--and we will!
Okay, I'm OUT OF SOAP, down off the BOX ha. Have a great day & 2012+