[RightWhale]

The US pays farmers to not farm. Much farmable land is not being farmed. Nobody is starving due to general corn shortages.

[mtbopfuyn]

This should be fun. I’ll bring the popcorn... oh, never mind.

[Old Sarge]

"it is a battle between the world's 800 million automobile owners, who want to maintain their mobility, and the world's two billion poorest people, who simply want to survive."

The Left will not give up their precious limousines. If the poor are starving, Let Them Eat Cake.

[coloradan]

What’s more important, feed a small village for a year, or Al Gore flies his future private corn-ethanol-powered-jet across the globe telling people how global warming will cause starvation to the worlds poor?

[aruanan]

My niece told me that their teacher in high school was showing them a movie about not eating meat and telling them how many loaves of bread could be made with the grain that it takes to feed one steer. I told her to ask the teacher who wants to eat hundreds of loaves of bread and say that's why we pay a lot more per pound for good beef than for a loaf of bread.

On a related note: I have a cousin who went through the whole vegetarianism thing. She wouldn't eat anything "that has a face." After years she started eating fish sandwiches. Now my dad reported to me that he recently saw her chowing down on a massive piece of prime rib! She's finally come to her senses.

[G8 Diplomat]

[B4Ranch]

If we look further into algae, we might have the answer.

There's Oil in That Slime (Algae)

[Sacajaweau]

And when we have a drought? Do we eat dirt and/or walk?

[gridlock]

How about we eliminate all subsidies and mandates and let the market decide how much food and how much fuel is produced?

[Balding_Eagle]

We can do both.

We are such a wealthy nation, with such successful agricultural system that not only can we do both, we can produce large amounts of ‘natural’ foods, which require twice as much land as other foods. We can also ‘burn’ our corn for fuel.

AND have food left over.

[festus]

The nice thing about ethanol is you can make it from darn near anything organic.

So we can solve the homeless problem and end world hunger and solve the fuel needs by using all the grumblers as a fuel source.

;-)

[grey_whiskers]

Anti E85, Anti-Ted Kennedy (but I repeat myself) Sarcasm Torpedo ARMED. FIRE!!

...and the amount of ethanol required to fill up a 25-gallon SUV would keep Ted Kennedy 'tanked' for another week at least.

Cheers!