Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 04/13/2008 8:15:35 AM PDT by milwguy
Amid a continued global shortage of food supply because of severe droughts in several countries and with grain being diverted to biofuel production, the world is in the grip of a food crisis, WAM news agency reported Monday citing a UAE daily editorial.
"The pressure is visible on the streets already with protests against food prices increasing and governments around the world responding with often counterproductive controls on prices and exports," the Gulf Today wrote on its editorial Sunday.
To highlight the gravity of the situation, the paper referred to the World Bank warning that some 33 countries could face social unrest because of higher food and energy prices.
(Excerpt) Read more at newkerala.com ...
Supports ethanol subsidies & “farm safety net”. (Nov 1999) Triple use of biomass, ethanol, plant-based textiles, etc. (Nov 1999)
http://www.issues2000.org/Al_Gore.htm
he doesn’t care. he’s not going to starve. so what if the peasant third world nations starve. it doesn’t affect him....(selfish b!st!rd.
It’s not like he couldn’t stand to skip a meal or two (thousand)
When are people ever going to wake up and see this scam artist for what he really is and the damage he is doing to this planet?
I wonder if Al Gore would hand me his Nobel prize if I discovered a way to convert vaccines into energy, sparing the world from an energy crisis (but dooming billions to die of preventable disease).
Maybe we could deliver some whale meat to these starving folks. Think that would get fat Al’s attention?
Except, where would we grow the switchgrass? Keep in mind it would have to be somewhere near existing irrigation, and convenient for harvest. In fact it would simply replace existing crops. Growers with failing crops or low return crops due to pests or fluctuating markets might instead say "Hey Al Gore's friends want switchgrass. Forget the corn or the cantaloupes I'll plant that and make an easy buck." Meanwhile the switchgrass competes for water and fertilizer driving up those prices.
The fact is that no matter how you slice it, making fuel from plants affects the entire global food market. It's a bad idea.
Gore, and those who follow him, consider humans to be an undesirable infestation on this planet.
Actually, I believe for some truly hard-core environmentalists, it IS part of the plan. Fewer exhalers--less C02, Fewer carbon-hogging humans--all the better for Mother Earth and the "chosen few" to live in their smug eco-paradise.
As I type this, in spite of Gore-Bull warming, we are experiencing snow fluries. Yes, on April 13, 2008.
That he’s got the ethanol scam entrenched and on his way (nearly there) with “Climate Change” and he’s making a pantload off of ficticious ‘Carbon Credits’, maybe he can start finding a way to sell ‘calorie credits’ to the starving masses.
As an aside, I just checked the National Weather Service Webpage as I am in the habit of doing for the 7day forecast.
Look at what has become the "Icon" for 5 out of the 10 events listed over the next week:
"Breezy"
Heck, I live in East Tenn. and we are getting scattered snow here
Ohh WOE is me... whys everybody pickin on me???
Google “deep ecology”. “deep ecology” ideas: reduce world population to 1 billion, ‘islands of civilization’ in a world of wilderness,’. You get the picture.
A quote from PJ O'Rourke, I beleive: "So -- where's the omlette???"
Maybe if Al Gore would back away from the World's Buffet table, there would be more food for others at the world table.
The eco-fascists DO say that there are too many people on Earth.
Your rantings and speculation about a future of starvation, and the resulting hysteria you have helped unleash, is contributing substantially to real life, here and now starvation.
The worst part for you is that the place you will hold as one of the most destructive and misguided buffoons in the history of this not-so-hot planet, isn't even close to your biggest problem. That being what a complete and utter dork you are.
Just viewed the pictures of the Gore posted here. Strikes me that he eats high on the hog.
But refining petroleum gives you 10,000 to one. That's the real no-brainer.
Did you know that Al Gore is a Twinkie?
Mr. Gore,
How about converting the planet’s starving poor into Soylent Fuel. /sarc
A far better solution is to encourage more exploration, production, and refining capacity in the US. If it interrupts Teddy's view of the ocean, too bad. Suck it up, Teddy, and pay back the favors your voters have given your sorry a$$ for the past four decades.
Perhaps, but it still puts a strain on global agricultural resources.
no way, that would line his pockets with less and it is all about him.
I remember an interview of the then President-elect Bill Clinton. He said gasoline prices in the US were "unnaturally low" because the Federal Taxes on gasoline were far below what the Europeans pay. He promised to correct that problem in his first 90 days in office.
Poor ALGORE . . . .he must either travel 'in costume' or 'as he really is'
He's made a wise career choice, even if he doesn't wear it well.
” The world is doomed to destruction” idiots just can’t get their timing right. They predicted nuclear winter would destroy the planet. The earth got warmer. Now they predict global warming will destroy us. The planet is getting colder. Maybe mother nature is just playing jokes on these clowns.
I always thought it to be an obscene idea to use food to drive a car. I was raised with a deep respect for food. I feel like an idiot when I say the words: “Give us today our daily bread” knowing that potential bread is inefficiently converted into energy.
In order to produce ethanol, one has to distill (boil off) water from a week ethanol/water solution. This requires energy in the form of heat. The energy required to produce one gallon of ethanol is more than will be contained in the ethanol as a fuel source. Ergo, energy loss.
I still maintain my old argument that ethanol is for drinking and not for driving. I need less ethanol than my car needs for driving me to the liquor store.
Maybe Malthus was right after all. If you wait long enough just about every prediction comes true.
The biggest deal with Switchgrass is that we can stick a gene in there so that it contains its own enzyme that turns the whole thing to alcohol in a retort.
We could probably do that with corn and then use the stalks the same way.
In any case we are going to use the best in Frankenfood technology to produce enough fuel to power our industry and transportation while yielding up sufficient food to keep our hogs fat and cows milking!
Ughh...you would be wrong. It would take over 500,000 acres of switchgrass and two crops a year to replace the coal to power one 650 megawatt coal fired boiler.
It would also take quite a bit of fuel to haul all the switchgrass to the plant.
There are lots of problems with even trying to burn this stuff...mainly moisture.
See post 43.
I have a friend in Hong Kong in the financial industry who told me that because of these things in this article they’ve had 20-30% inflation over there over the past few months.
I see. Well I think we should use coal and nukes for baseload electric power and we should use our huge natural gas reserves found in the Gulf, Mexico, Texas, Wyoming, and Canada to power our cars.
We could fill our cars in our homes if we really wanted.
The reason the eviros want ethanol is because they think it emits less carbon dioxide. They are wrong. Now you have the farming lobby and other jumping on the bandwagon so they can make a quick buck too.
This global warming nonsense is getting out of hand. My hope is that we are going into a great global cooling period over the next 30 years. It would serve algore right.
It seems the only sensible country is China who long ago declared that they would not divert scarce farmlands for biofuels since biofuels are a western luxury.
My favorite quote is "The UN says it takes 232kg of corn to fill a 50-litre car tank with ethanol. That is enough to feed a child for a year. Last week, the UN predicted "massacres" unless the biofuel policy is halted."
It reminds me of the cartoon I saw some time ago where you saw a starving black child with its stomach bulging from malnutrition sitting on the ground trying to eat a corn, along comes fatcat Al GORE who grabs it from him saying "Hey I'm very important and I need it to fuel my SUV".
Maybe they should send Al Gore to Haiti to feed the poor, he's so big & fat that he'll probably food 100 people at least!!
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