sorry California

[Stichill_imp]

[ul] [li]About a third of America’s corn crop is used for feeding cattle, hogs, and poultry in the U.S. Corn provides the “carbs” in animal feed, while soybeans provide the protein. It takes a couple of bushels of American corn to make corn-fed steak; by some estimates, a beef cow can eat a ton of corn if raised in a feedlot. Both dairy cows and beef cows also consume silage, which is fermented corn stalks and other green plants.[/li] [li]Just over a third of the corn crop is used to make ethanol, which serves as a renewable fuel additive to gasoline. The Renewable Fuel Standard requires that 10% of gasoline be renewable fuel, but you can find E15 (15 percent ethanol) or E85 (85 percent) ethanol in some areas, particularly in the Midwest.[/li] [li]The rest of the corn crop is used for human food, beverages, and industrial uses in the U.S., or exported to other countries for food or feed use. Corn has hundreds of uses. It is used to make breakfast cereal, tortilla chips, grits, canned beer, soda, cooking oil, and bio-degradable packing materials. It’s the key ingredient in the growing medium for life-saving medicines including penicillin. Corn gluten meal is used on flower beds to prevent weeds.
[/li][/ul] Source: [url=https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2019/07/29/corn-americas-largest-crop-2019]Corn is America’s Largest Crop in 2019

[GoldOxide_imp]

I was very sad riding across the west with the GPS showing a lake off to the side then seeing nothing but a dry lake bed.

Loved returning to the green landscape coming back hope....green means life....brown not so much ;-(

Made me think what a blessing rain is.....distilled purified water.

Had a worker in CA say CA feeds the rest of the US with it's crops....I thought maybe with fruits, vegetables....but watching all those fields of grain mile after mile....maybe not.

I did see tremendous amounts of water being used for irrigation in very hot dry conditions....made me wonder how efficient the use of that water was given the increase evaporation rates, etc.

If you ride out into it, the mud up to your axels will reveal pretty quickly that it is in fact a lake!

I was very sad riding across the west with the GPS showing a lake off to the side then seeing nothing but a dry lake bed.

Loved returning to the green landscape coming back hope....green means life....brown not so much ;-(

Made me think what a blessing rain is.....distilled purified water.

Had a worker in CA say CA feeds the rest of the US with it's crops....I thought maybe with fruits, vegetables....but watching all those fields of grain mile after mile....maybe not.

I did see tremendous amounts of water being used for irrigation in very hot dry conditions....made me wonder how efficient the use of that water was given the increase evaporation rates, etc.

A friend of mine from New Hampshire calls the Southwest "a giant litterbox".

I was very sad riding across the west with the GPS showing a lake off to the side then seeing nothing but a dry lake bed.

Loved returning to the green landscape coming back hope....green means life....brown not so much ;-(

Made me think what a blessing rain is.....distilled purified water.

Had a worker in CA say CA feeds the rest of the US with it's crops....I thought maybe with fruits, vegetables....but watching all those fields of grain mile after mile....maybe not.

I did see tremendous amounts of water being used for irrigation in very hot dry conditions....made me wonder how efficient the use of that water was given the increase evaporation rates, etc.

It's corn that feeds the US. The livestock eat it, and the food companies make everything out of it.

Hmm. The "heat wavvy thang" is missing in this image.

[Gone in 60]

So that thing is a rain gauge? And all this time I thought my friends in Ohio were doing meth!

Yeah, been a little dry out here. My wife and I just got home from a week-long driving trip up to the northern corner of the state to visit some friends, and stayed at a cousin's in San Francisco for a few days on the way home. It was really foggy, closest we saw to any type of moisture. But, it put a weird salty crust on the car.

When we got home, the car was salty, dusty and blasted with bugs. Needed to give it a good wash, but waited until night to hide the shame of using so much water.

[GoldOxide_imp]

So that thing is a rain gauge? And all this time I thought my friends in Ohio were doing meth!

Yeah, been a little dry out here. My wife and I just got home from a week-long driving trip up to the northern corner of the state to visit some friends, and stayed at a cousin's in San Francisco for a few days on the way home. It was really foggy, closest we saw to any type of moisture. But, it put a weird salty crust on the car.

When we got home, the car was salty, dusty and blasted with bugs. Needed to give it a good wash, but waited until night to hide the shame of using so much water.

(yikes) That is a bit of a drag.


The closest I came to that situation was driving down from Ontario in the bowels of winter to South Carolina. I was the only car on the road caked in road salt. So I left the salt at a manual car wash. Fortunately, SC doesn't have the same water issues as SoCAL.

[Stichill_imp]

Do the commercial car washes recycle the water at all?

[Gone in 60]

I'd think that the fancy washes must... Not the one I use, however. Since my cars are garaged and rarely get driven, washing is infrequent, except for a coin wash/stall type place at the end of my block. I just put the minimum in and use the spot free rinse, then drive home really fast to blow dry. The water just runs down a drain.

[the Ferret]

At least 50% chance of rain 5 out the next 7 in my part of Ohio

[Stichill_imp]

Jay Leno always says he doesn't wash his cars with water, and I always wonder what "he" (his crew) uses.

I recently bought some [url=https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004BG7RVO]3D waterless car wash to just see how well it would work as a dust / light road grime remover. So far, so good. We have hard water here that leaves mineral spots if you don't dry it off, so the less I have to wet the car down and then dry it, the better.

[GoldOxide_imp]

Jay Leno always says he doesn't wash his cars with water, and I always wonder what "he" (his crew) uses.

I recently bought some [url=https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004BG7RVO]3D waterless car wash to just see how well it would work as a dust / light road grime remover. So far, so good. We have hard water here that leaves mineral spots if you don't dry it off, so the less I have to wet the car down and then dry it, the better.

lol - of course he doesn't [wash].

Yeah, ... his crew? Hmm, liquid gold?

[Gone in 60]

Yeah, no, Leno doesn't wash his cars. I'm sure he has a full staff of detailers for that. Speaking of which, he frequently shows up at car shows in the L.A. area. He'll typically drive into the middle of whatever is going on in an impossibly expensive car, mill around for about 15 minutes, zero in on one car he's curious about, chat with the owner for a while, then leave. Most recently, he arrived at a show I attended in a green Duesenberg convertible. He must have hit a puddle, as there was a splash of dirt under the fenders. I millled around the car, and when he returned to it, I commented that I'd never seen a spot of dirt on a Duesenberg. His reply was "This one's the beater. I've got the nice ones at home!"

I use a polymer detail/sealer spray that I buy by the gallon. It's great for keeping the bikes and cars clean. I only do a bucket wash after something like a long drive where the car accumulates a lot of bugs and dirt.