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To: AFPhys
"the moronic drive to burn corn is a very significant factor in higher food prices worldwide, and now, deaths worldwide."

Thats nothing but pure BS. If you think everyone lives on animal feed corn, you are truely one of the fooled.

There is no food shortage.

Even in turd world countries, their food problems are political, not because the world can't produce enough.

Food price increases are NOT a result of bio fuels production.

Human grade food isn't even used in bio fuel production.

The cost of food is driven up by the price of oil, which effects production costs, transportation costs, labor costs, and delivery costs to the grocer. Fertilizer costs which have tripled for farmers this crop year, not to mention there being a severe shortage, as have machinery and other costs.

21 posted on 04/24/2008 2:38:20 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Nathan Zachary; AFPhys
Human grade food isn't even used in bio fuel production.

And where does that food not fit for human consupmptiuon come from to make ethanol?

Does it fall from the sky like manna?

No. It comes from growing it on limited farm acreage that would otherwise be used to grow food that IS fit for human consumption.

See Post 24.

The reason the Bible says that God sent manna floating down on the Israelites during their travels in the desert is precisely because of the fact that, in the desert, the Israelites were not growing any crops fit for human consumption.

There is no food shortage.

..... if you are a cow.


25 posted on 04/24/2008 3:26:10 AM PDT by Polybius
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To: Nathan Zachary

You’re not accounting for the shift in acreage. The biofuel subsidy program induced farmers to plant acreage that used to be planted in wheat to be planted in corn, because it made growing a low yield of non-food-quality corn more profitable than growing a moderate yield of wheat.


27 posted on 04/24/2008 5:23:17 AM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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