If we are growing food to convert to fuel maybe we can convert fuel to food?
Seriously, did anyone really, really think that burning our edible grains for gasoline was a good idea?
I don’t know how big of a problem this is going to be in the future, but I guarantee that burning up all of our edibles to gas up our cars will not be a good thing.
Biofuels. Idiocy.
same old malthusian crap.
And what happens to the price of food/gasoline if we have a growing season affected by too much rain/too little rain/bug infestations/blight/etc/etc
The cost of raw food crops is a small part of the price of the packaged merchandise on the shelves of the grocery and may be ignored. Factory and transportation costs are the big part. There is no food shortage in spite of the glee of the neo-Malthusians and other Family Planners.
Your link to ABC News does not line up with the title, content or your named source.
Do you have a working link to the article?
Guy may have found the cure for the OBESITY EPIDEMIC
I’ve read some simplistic manure in my time but this is in the extreme.
You want good food and a lot of it? Cheap? Get the government out of subsidizing big ag corporations and dump price fixing and you will have more than you know.
Ever see the images of citrus farmers piling up their crops to rot because of prices?
Silly, silly article.
Creating a worldwide hunger problem by burning all our food as ethanol in the name of saving the environment is an interesting means to create a crisis so devastating that people are willing to surrender their freedom in order to eat.
Any chance this is simply an effort to create a control mechanism to stomp out "free thinking" cultures?
Hell, they've got the "almighty" British Empire embracing a cultural suicide trend right now. Those guys used to eat UN types with buttered scones and tea. Look at them now. I'm not beyond embracing some vast-left-wing-conspiracies myself about now.
If the mindless media can consolidate to "disappear" Fred Thompson by utterly and completing denying his existence in order to stamp out conservative candidates, I'm not beyond believing brighter, more capable minds could pull off the former stunt.
(*crinkle*...*crinkle) Tinfoil's off now. Fire away!
Forgive my rant, Dan. It's my "relaxation" time and we just knocked off a massive fondue meal and some fine Bordeaux. Wifey needs to nap a bit before desert so it's me and the computer. : )
So its a crisis,not because people are starving, but because people want to eat well and are willing to pay for it?
People need to learn to grow their own,,
Strange how thousands of years of doing so, is lost in 50+ ..
Can you say “Ethanol?”
I knew you could.
We just need to stop putting food in our gas tanks.
I wish global warming would hurry up, it would create more arable land.
Great topic. saving for later.
Why is this article post assigned to the ‘Bloggs& Personal’ category? It seems like ‘ongoing news’ and from a newspaper.
bump
yeah, this doesn’t surprise anyone.
“BMO strategist Donald Coxe warns credit crunch and soaring oil prices will pale in comparison to looming catastrophe.”
Another catastrophe? How many is that now?
Amazing how anyone survives.