[CutePuppy]

It doesn't really matter to the pseudo-environmentalists, so it's useless to engage them, but explaining to normal people (or, in current vernacular, "regular folks") that growing crops for the biofuels, 'planting' wind turbines / "windmills" and solar farms to generate expensive energy requires huge amount of space and "human footprint" that not only doesn't "save the environment" - it actually destroys the environment and natural resources in addition to making everything else around us more expensive.

Unfortunately, the administrations and Congress-critters of both parties think that this kind of pseudo-"environmentalism" is now required, in addition to serving the wishes of their subsidies-seeking "special interest groups."

[CutePuppy]

Not to mention that such use of vast horizontal space - required for biofuels, wind and solar “farms” - is not in the least “sustainable,” as the new “environmental” buzzword (”sustainability”) claims.

[Sioux-san]

Follow da money - Ethanol is ruining car engines, and the EPA or DOE or both, want the % of ethanol in gasoline to be doubled - so that’s one way to ground a whole lot of people.

[mamelukesabre]

I’m not so sure this is a terrible thing. To break the backs of the OPEC cartels and the terrorists they fund, we need expensive food, expensive metals/construction materials, cheap petroleum, a strong US dollar, and political/military unrest throughout the middle east.

[jjotto]

Not to defend “biofuels,” but this just isn’t true. World production of grains is at an all-time high and biofuels are just a rich politician’s hobby, representing a miniscule fraction of productive capability.

It’s like saying gas is expensive because NASCAR wastes a lot of it.

[calico_thompson]

I love Nestle chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe. Nestle does not give quarterly earnings “guidance,” but when you travel the world their products are always there. Nestle is not listed on the NY stock exchange, but Americans can buy the stock on the pink sheets in an active market. Nestle does not want to bother with the onerous reporting for US listed companies.

Peter is absolutely right, but he neglects to point out that the Africans were doing pretty well and were increasing food production until the respective States started to confiscate the land and “redistribute” the wealth.

[Carbonsteel]

Let’s see...

Higher energy prices.

Higher food prices.

Higher unemployment.

Higher health care costs.

Higher taxes.

Higher debt and deficits.

I think I’m seeing a pattern here.

[TheDon]

The head of the world's largest food producer believes high prices are due to the growing of crops for biofuels.

Hmmmm...creating a food shortage....a nice way to keep "The Peeps" under control. No wonder the little Eichmann's in D.C. are pushing biofuels.

[upchuck]

Quit Burning
My Food!

[gorush]

Love the proverb: “Live as if you will die tomorrow, plant as if you will live forever.”

[rem_mitchell]

No mention of the drought that is hitting 26 states.

[DainBramage]

Ask hispanics how much corn toritlllas cost since ethenol.