EXCELSIOR!
Posted on 04/14/2008 12:49:16 AM PDT by Fred
Let them eat oil.
Things will be all better when the ice age comes.
There have been voices crying in the wilderness for more than a year now that this sudden surge of interest in ethanol made no sense financially and would result in less food grown.
It’s been a Ponzi scheme from the very beginning and it’s going to get worse before it gets better. Food prices are crazy now and going to get worse.
It's also time for Americans to demand a moon landing/manhattan type of project for our energy needs, to get the US to stop kissing the ring of the saudis and crazies like hugo chavez.
Use of orn for vehicles has nothing to do with climate change.
It is wlefare for farmers plain and simple. It is uneconomical pandering of the worst kind, but since the Iowa caucus is so important, it never ends.
This author seems quite myopic in his understanding and pretty much set out with a conclusion and tortured his subject to agree with him.
Stupid drivel worthy of a liberal.
Hey, at least Al Gore seems to be eating well: Ruth’s Chris, Le Cirque 2000 and Delmonico’s is a long way from eating grass, isn’t it?
bingo...
yep, more blame to throw at the big bad west and old whitey..
now i am responsible for starvation, responsible for destroying the environment, responsible for oil prices....
wow, how do i get up in the morning!
i notice they only mention grain, only ONE mention of rice ? strange that considering its the stable diet of most of the world and is where the real issue is. Of course the countries like India, Vietnam who export rice etc are not mentioned here that they have stopped the vast majority of their exports and are saving it for their local markets (and as it happens i have no issue with a country doing that). Yet its e-85 and obviously the big bad west thats the problem.
another issue, stop using oil, stop using replacements...care to mention what we should use? what people dont realise is fuel powers economies and if you want world hunger on a biblical scale...just keep screwing around with fuel. the issue here is the FAKE oil issue and the even faker global warming BS. there is no peak oil, we are awash in oil, there is no issue other then a mental one...thats what so sad...so if you want to blame anyone, blame the fake global warming crowd..oh and blame those poeple who blocked refining capacity..
The eco-weenies will say it is just the Malthusian Operator kicking in, and starvation is all for the good of Gaia.
Ignorant Evirocrats are to blame...they need to be roasted and exported to feed these starving masses. Congress, EUcrats, Chicoms, Al Gore and Hilldog could feed a village and finally they would have a useful purpose.
Is the UN now working for big oil?
We pay through the nose for oil. Let them bid the price of corn up a keep it away from the distillers. What they do not tell you is that most countries do not eat that much corn, it is Wheat and rice they consume.
What a load of horse hockey. You want to feed the masses? Abolish OPEC and drill in North America. That'll loosen up the grain stocks. Otherwise sit down and STFU Mr. Ambrose Evans-Prissie.
Ethanol is a scam!
The same is true of Haiti. Tons and tons of rice, beans and other foods have been allowed to rot in shipping containers while the populace eats dirt!
This article gave me a headache. I can’t deal with all these metric numbers so early in the morning.
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