Do No Evil – The inflation in food prices worldwide -- prices have soared 83 percent in the past three years, according to the World Bank -- has a number of causes.
Good find & better article LRF. Talk about the "Law Of Unintended Consequences"....
Despite all the proof that using ethanol is NOT green, the EU refuses to back down..... Buch of ******.....
Now why did the filter kill t w a t s ?? Pregnant Goldfish FYI.... Which the EU resembles more & more !!!!
It seems obvious looking back but the people leading the charge never thought about the problem. They still keep their heads in the sand.
When you redirect the part of the supply of anything to another purpose then either the supply has to increase or the price will go up. Simple economics. These people never think about "What will happen if" which is what they really should do. It was seen early on with the corn to ethanol and the price of corn soared in Mexico. Did that give them pause? Absolutely not they just charged ahead.
Libs:
story link keeps crashing. Is there an alternate link?
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/monacharen/a...
YOu can find it there or by going to the Drudge Report, scroll down to "columnists" and find the link for Mona Charen.
Ethanol as a fuel is a disaster. Yet mandates to add ethanol to gasoline continue.
These green policies will kill us long before "global warming" does.
It will be interesting to see what action the Feds take on this - if they even bother to reconsider the corn/ethanol debacle
Gov. Perry asks for cut in ethanol produced from grain
Gov. Rick Perry inserted himself into the national debate over energy policy Friday by asking the federal government to reduce the mandate for producing ethanol from grain.
In a letter to federal regulators, Mr. Perry blamed ethanol for driving up the price of corn for Texas ranchers and feedlots and contributing to higher food prices.
"Granting this waiver will provide Texans much needed relief at the grocery store," Mr. Perry wrote, "and it will ensure that the livestock industry in Texas is able to continue providing a significant source of food products for our nation."
Apparently Texas A&M disagrees according to the article
Corn to ethanol is NOT a "green policy". It is a policy heavily promoted by well funded lobbyists from the ethanol industry (lead by Archer Daniels Midland Corp) and BIG agribusiness. The main supporters are representatives and senators from the corn belt.
The major environmental groups, including the Sierra Club and the Audubon society have spoken against the corn to ethanol program.
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" "When millions of people are going hungry," Palaniappan Chidambaram, India's finance minister told the Journal, "it's a crime against humanity that food should be diverted to biofuels."
Like I've been saying from the beginning of this fiasco, "using food for fuel is immoral."
Please, remember to say a prayer for the starving children of the world every time you start you hybrid.
We have to realize that we have limited resources on this planet and limited abilities to produce renewable resources at a level needed to support all of our planetary desires. Therefore, we have to prioritize in order to best use what we have while we wait for technology to catch up. That's why the "green" movement has done and continues to do more harm than good. Knee jerk reactions to perceived problems are never as good as well thought out, deliberate solutions. Compound this with those who promote imaginary problems as fact to satisfy their hidden agendas and it takes even longer to find ways out of the environmentalist quagmire.
All the while gasoline and crude oil prices have tripled in the past few years. That is what is causing the price of food to skyrocket, not biofuels. Don't get me wrong beleive we need to stop the corn-ethnol boon-doggle and start growing industrial hemp again. Not only for the medicinal value of it's female flower but for fiber in it's husks and of course the oil in it's seeds.
More power to the Aggies.
I hate to say this but the ethanol idea was bad but I feel that we are going to waste a bunch of time and money on the hydrogen fuel cell, If the world wants a clean source of energy to move us about it is going to have to be electricity if all this money that has been spent on ethanol and fuel cells had been spent on developing a better battery we might of had something besides hungy people and high food prices.
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Very good analysis of the ethanol boondoggle. We don't need to wait for "climate change" to create a crisis. The knee-jerk reaction that has us burning food for fuel and led to some nations foolishly signing - but not abiding - the Kyoto protocol already put us there.
Looks like a good find but I get an illegal compression message and could not view it.
Well what idea do you have, if we did not do this,do you have a way out?
"Well what idea do you have, if we did not do this,do you have a way out?"
Invest strongly in alternative energies, development and research. Decrease dependency on Oil in general. Increase (by a real amount, not 1MPG) fuel efficiency for cars. Heavily tax SUVs and large trucks not being used for construction, farm work, et cetera. Redirect even a small percentage of money going to 'defense' (read: Military Industrial Complex) towards R&D -- after all it will essentially be one of the best defenses we can mount.
For once, I actually agree with most of what Dionys says.
"Well what idea do you have, if we did not do this,do you have a way out?"
Expand domestic oil exploration and drilling while working on viable alternative power sources such as hydrogen fuel cells. Build more refineries and dig more pipelines. There are other ways to create ethanol as well without using corn, and more Americans would have good-paying jobs while reducing costs for everyone.
I ride my cycle 100 percent of the time as well. Gets up to 50 mpg. Some smaller ones get close to 70 mpg. It really isn't that hard to figure out.