Biofueled Food Shortages?

Campus Report ^ | September 15, 2008 | Irene Warren

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Biofueled Food Shortages?

by: Irene Warren, September 15, 2008

America’s renewable energy plan remains bleak, as biofuel was found to give off more Greenhouse Gas Emissions than renewable energy, explained a panel of experts yesterday at the Hudson Institute. Although experts disagreed on the next course to take in keeping Americans fed, they, for the most part agree that biofuel drives up cost and can even cause a universal food shortage in the long run.

In light of the Global Warming, “the World Bank is warning of climate chaos and demands a rebuilding of the world’s agricultural science centers to keep everyone fed,” Dennis T. Avery, Director of Research and Education for Hudson’s Center for Global Food Issues explained. However, not all experts agree with the World Bank’s decision.

Dr. Patrick J. Michaels, senior fellow Environmental Studies for Cato Institute, questioned, “Why renewables? Where is the warming?” “Global Warming is highly polarized,” he added. “The surface of this country has been getting wet as it warms up.”

In a recent article, Katherine Sierra, the World Bank’s vice-president for sustainable development, said, “climate change will mean more droughts, floods, more outbreaks of pests and disease, more heat stress for livestock and less arable land for crops.” In short, Sierra warns, “the world dropped the ball on agricultural science after the Green Revolution saved a billion people from starvation and preserved 16 million square miles of forest from being plowed for more low-yield crops.”...

[itsthejourney]

Please, can I say it, huh?

DUH!!!

[Syberyenta]

_rill more, _rill here, _rill now.

Wanna buy a D?

[theBuckwheat]

It is foolish to burn food-grade crops and turn our backs on hydrocarbon feedstocks that are not fit for human consumption. Coal does not compete against corn as food, but government subsidies make corn a viable competitor to petroleum as a motor vehicle fuel. Indeed, the subsidy was planned to do exactly that!

And to put icing on the chaotic thinking of those who advocate this policy, not even food riots in Mexico due to high corn prices is enough to get them to even modify the subsidy so corn prices will not be unnecessarily distorted.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !