[GeronL]

I beat ya by exactly a minute.

Corn ethonol being forced into the gas tank is one of the reasons. Undoing that should be the first thing we do if there is a food shortage. And stop paying farmers not to grow foods.

[kabar]

Yep, and it is not only in the US. Other countries are following suit. Brazil is the second largest.

“World’s Ethanol Production Forecast 2008 - 2012” -- According to the MarketResearchAnalyst.com information the top five ethanol producers in 2006 were the United States (4.855 billion US gallons per year (bgy), Brazil (4.491 bgy), China (1.017 bgy), India (0.502 bgy) and France (0.251 bgy).

[arthurus]

Ethanol...Undoing that should be the first thing we do

That is the last thing we will do. Republicans will starve before they will touch the sacrosanct Ethanol mandates and subsidies and Democrats would like to have most of the population starve to reduce the country to a sustainable 50 million or 3 million or whatever the golden number of the moment is.