could we balance the scales by burying the corn instead of storing it around our middles? No. As our new DOE chair has pointed out, growing corn is not carbon-

could we balance the scales by burying the corn instead of storing it around our middles? No. As our new DOE chair has pointed out, growing corn is not carbon-neutral: http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/002722.html http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/002722.html The US already subsidizes farmers to grow corn to turn into ethanol, but $7bn in the past decade has been wasted because the process isn’t carbon-neutral. “From the point of view of the environment,” explains Chu, “it would be better if we just burnt oil.” So you can't "rebalance" the carbon scale by turning the corn into oil and then reburying the corn: That's a lossy process that leaks carbon into the air. You should instead simply bribe the agribusiness corporations to leave the oil in the ground and play checkers all summer instead of planting excess corn. ;)