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| Screen Ranger |
 Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 4:15 pm |
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Yup........Another Stupid Liberal Idea is hurting the Poor of the
World.......Will people have to DIE before they Quit Listening to the
Leftist Pukes?..........
"Food Crisis Starts Eclipsing Climate Change Worries
Gore Ducks, as a Backlash Builds Against Biofuels
The New York Sun | April 25, 2008
The campaign against climate change could be set back by the global
food crisis, as foreign populations turn against measures to use
foodstuffs as substitutes for fossil fuels.
With prices for rice, wheat, and corn soaring, food-related unrest has
broken out in places such as Haiti, Indonesia, and Afghanistan.
Several countries have blocked the export of grain. There is even talk
that governments could fall if they cannot bring food costs down.
One factor being blamed for the price hikes is the use of government
subsidies to promote the use of corn for ethanol production. An
estimated 30% of America’s corn crop now goes to fuel, not food.
A study by a Washington think tank, the International Food Policy
Research Institute, indicated that between a quarter and a third of
the recent hike in commodities prices is attributable to biofuels.
Ethanol was initially promoted as a vehicle for America to cut back on
foreign oil. In recent years, biofuels have also been touted as a way
to fight climate change, but the food crisis does not augur well for
ethanol’s prospects.
“It takes around 400 pounds of corn to make 25 gallons of ethanol,”
Mr. Senauer, also an applied economics professor at Minnesota, said.
“It’s not going to be a very good diet but that’s roughly enough to
keep an adult person alive for a year.”
Mr. Senauer said: “Crop-based biofuels are not part of the solution.
They, in fact, add to the problem. Whether Al Gore has caught up with
that, somebody ought to ask him,” the professor said.
Mr. Gore was not available for an interview yesterday on the food
crisis, according to his spokeswoman. A spokesman for Mr. Gore’s
public campaign to address climate change, the Alliance for Climate
Protection, declined to comment for this article.
A Harvard professor of environmental studies, Michael McElroy, warned
in a November-December 2006 article in Harvard Magazine that “the
production of ethanol from either corn or sugar cane presents a new
dilemma: whether the feedstock should be devoted to food or fuel. With
increasing use of corn and sugar cane for fuel, a rise in related food
prices would seem inevitable.” The article, “The Ethanol Illusion”
went so far as to praise Senator McCain for summing up the corn-
ethanol energy initiative launched in the United States in 2003 as
“highway robbery perpetrated on the American public by Congress.”
In Britain, some hunger-relief and environmental groups have turned
sharply against biofuels. “Setting mandatory targets for biofuels
before we are aware of their full impact is madness,” Philip Bloomer
of Oxfam told the BBC." |
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| Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 8:31 am |
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On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:31:50 -0400, "JerryD\(upstateNY\)" <jerryd@rochester.rr.com> wrote:
Quote: ... outlawed DDT ...
There are far better methods of controlling mosquito populations. |
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| JerryD(upstateNY) |
| Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 4:04 pm |
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<jerryd@rochester.rr.com> wrote: ... outlawed DDT ...
US * wrote:.. There are far better methods of controlling mosquito
populations.
You are full of shit !!!
Please explain why a million people a year have died since the ban if "There
are far better methods of controlling mosquito populations".
Why aren't they used then ???
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| Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 5:59 pm |
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| Smirnoff |
| Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 9:59 pm |
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| AZ Nomad |
| Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 11:35 pm |
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On Thu, 1 May 2008 22:59:18 -0400, Smirnoff <Unlised@unlisted.com> wrote:
Some people can take a shit without getting it all over their hands. |
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