Posted on 04/21/2008 8:38:09 AM PDT by Constitutions Grandchild
Many parts of America, long considered the breadbasket of the world, are now confronting a once unthinkable phenomenon: food rationing. Major retailers in New York, in areas of New England, and on the West Coast are limiting purchases of flour, rice, and cooking oil as demand outstrips supply. There are also anecdotal reports that some consumers are hoarding grain stocks.
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Unless we can develop our oil fields, protect the fair access of all nations to economical supplies of fuels and cease the alarmist rantings of the global warming profiteers, there will be much blood, famine and tears in the future of the world. Diverting food for fuel is criminal as those less fortunate lay starving. Try eating ethanol sounds more like Marie Antoinette's famous, "Let them eat cake."
Amen.
Yet another ghoulish legacy of Jimmy Carter.
Minnesota Tim Pawlenty, a big ethanol supporter who stuck our state with even more ethanol mandates, has been named as a potential VP by the more liberal elements of the GOP.
That would be a riot; having a POPULIST like Tim Pawlenty as our VP as he goes around convincing other states to mandate 10% ethanol in their gas as even more people in the world starve for lack of food because of ethanol.
And of Global Warming / Environmental Extremists.
And cowardly politicians who go to Iowa every four years and extol the virutes of this program.
I hadn’t realized New York City was the breadbasket of the world.
Seriously, the cities might well be about to have trouble, as food-delivery truckers are driven out of business by high fuel prices.
They burned off rainforest to clear land to grow fuel crops. All in the name of reducing carbon footprints. Insanity.
We don't want to use ethanol. I get 10% less MPG with 10% ethanol fuel. Ethanol is a lousy fuel, besides it takes a gallon of fossil fuel to produce one gallon of ethanol.
It was just an ‘IF’ to lead into a statement that a country that uses 90% ethanol didn’t burn their food to do it.
You notice the hippies never mention that piece.
Better :
"No starving children for gas? Then No liberals in charge !"
better than buying oil from ragheads
As for “no blood for oil,” that’s total nonsense.
“Big Oil” is a figment of the moonbats’ imagination. Exxon/Mobil is a midget compared to the foreign state-owned oil companies. An article yesterday admitted that they no longer have any control over supply or price.
Of course not. We no longer do all our own refining, and we are farther and farther away from supply sufficiency.
We should have gone into Iraq, put our oil companies in charge of the fields there, and used the oil production to reimburse our expenses. Sure as hell that’s what the French or the British would have done in the old days.
But, of course, there was no political will to do it. It has been hard enough to keep up the effort in Iraq without apparently admitting that all those left wing bumper stickers were right! “Bush did it for oil,” they would scream, with righteous satisfaction.
It’s time that some conservative leader pointed out that our fuel problem is mostly a Democrat political problem, instead of jumping like a good me-too RINO onto the global warming express. That we have to do it for oil, unless we want our country to get screwed.
Bush’s next to last SOTUS address chose to advocate ethanol production as one of its high points. How stupid can you get? Did Bush get any brownie points for this? Of course not. Did it help our country or the poor nations? Of course not. A wasted opportunity.
What about ANWAR, oil shales, drilling off the West coast of Florida, or coal gasification? Why isn't the U.S. actually doing some of the things that would reduce demand for foreign oil? More in this thread:
On the same note, you could say that anyone that thought we went there for any other reason, is a fool also.
An anonymous high-tech professional writing on an investment Web site, Seeking Alpha, said he recently bought 10 50-pound bags of rice at Costco. “I am concerned that when the news of rice shortage spreads, there will be panic buying and the shelves will be empty in no time. I do not intend to cause a panic, and I am not speculating on rice to make profit. I am just hoarding some for my own consumption,” he wrote.
For now, rice is available at Asian markets in California, though consumers have fewer choices when buying the largest bags. “At our neighborhood store, it’s very expensive, more than $30” for a 25-pound bag, a housewife from Mountain View, Theresa Esquerra, said. “I’m not going to pay $30. Maybe we’ll just eat bread.”
Tine for that CREP crap to go. That’s a MILLION ACRES of fertile soil that could be growing food. Think of the MONEY to be made supplying the demand!
You say the stupidest sh!t.
Al Gore was finally half right about something: his global warming cult is causing food shortages instead of actual global warming causing food shortages.
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