[Rudder]

Gore and the Greenies are the fault.

[Pearls Before Swine]

“Food for Fuel” isn’t nearly as good a slogan as “Food for Peace.” Were there any economic advisers in the House/White House when this was being cooked up, or just “Green is Good Politics” pollsters?

[Scotswife]

boycott ethanol.

[steelyourfaith]

Ethanol/Biofuels ping

[AliVeritas]

bookmark

[nyyankeefan]

al bore/lib/dems/enviro crusaders....their results of unintended consequences!!!

[Hardastarboard]

It occurs to me that I throw away enough food, both spoiled leftovers, and stuff that we bought and didn’t eat, to power an efficient automobile if it were converted into ethanol. I would think there might be some way to collect that and turn it into ethanol. God, what a stinky, nightmarish mess it would be, though. Ugh!!

[coloradan]

Higher food prices mean less food.

Usually, it's the other way around, less food means higher prices. Sometimes, when increased demand outstrips increased production, higher prices could mean more food, but not enough more for the higher-still demand.

[Mike Darancette]

Isn’t it an objective of the climate alarmists that the number of “breathers” be reduced?

[whipitgood]

Does this article imply that the USA is now responsible for starving people all over the world?

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

The idiocy known as Ethanol is causing people to starve. This is the effect of a stupid liberal law. So what do the liberals want to do? Raise the amount of Ethanol used in gasoline!
Never fails - whenever liberal laws fail, liberals always demand more of the same failed laws.

[RayChuang88]

That's why there is so much interest in cellulosic biomass processing. That way, instead of just using corn kernels, sugar cane and sugar beets to make biofuels, you can use an entire plant to make biofuels, which means all that agricultural waste--especially plant stalks--suddenly becomes a usable item. As a result, with cellulosic processing you can still grow enough food and still have a huge source of biomass to make almost any fuel you want.

[o_zarkman44]

People were poor and hungry LONG BEFORE ETHANOL. This is a crock of welfare garbage.

Farmers are in business for themselves. They have no obligation to feed people who can’t or won’t pay their way.
If farming bows to the emotional humanitarian demands to continue to feed poor people, they will also become poor and unable to pay their operating expenses and taxes on their property, or even feed themselves.

Low grain prices back in the 1980’s, along with high interest rate, caused the demise of over a million small farms in America. There is no profit in raising food to feed people who are constantly complaining or fighting tribal wars and jihad. I saw little compassion for farmers back then when they were losing their farms at a record pace because they couldn’t make a profit on their investment. But somehow today it is ok to bail out stupid mortage holders from foreclosure. And who is that going to help?? Banks? Stock market? Warren Buffett?

Nobody cared about the small farmers when they were going broke. They are making money now and the screaming banshees of social injustice have to pay market price for a box of corn flakes. They are whining about some assumed obligation to feed poor people. It shoulf be no surprise since the World is leaning towards a socialist one world government. Capitalism is evil.

At some point those starving people are going to have to realize if they don’t start helping themselves, they are going to flat out go hungry. The weak will never inherit the Earth.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Somewhere between a quarter and a third of the run-up in prices is the product of increased US demand for biofuels."

So, three-quarters or two-thirds of the price increase is NOT due to "demand for biofuels", but to some "other" un-named factor (probably increased oil prices).

The article disproves its own premise.

[jimbo123]

Algor and the liberals: Burn food, not oil.

[Wonder Warthog]

"As the article notes, wood chips and switchgrass are also hopeful substitutes, but lobbying from the corn industry has effectively crushed research into such alternatives."

Since when?? I haven't seen any indication of any cessation of research into alternatives.