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On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:48:18 -0800, "Bob Eld" <nsmontassoc@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>
><calderhome@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
>> (FAO), global food prices rose 40% in 2007 to the highest level on
>> record!
>>
>> See news story at:  http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1227-fao.html
>>
>> The rush to produce biofuels is a man made disaster, because making
>> fuel from corn, soybeans, or rapeseed takes more energy to produce
>> than it yields as fuel.  Biofuel manufacture releases large amounts of
>> greenhouse gases, including nitrous oxide from fertilizers, which is
>> 296 times more effective at trapping heat than carbon dioxide.
>> Farming contributes more to global warming than all forms of motorized
>> land, sea, and air transportation combined, so growing vast amounts of
>> crops for biofuel will heat up the earth's atmosphere faster than if
>> we only used imported Saudi Arabian oil.
>>
>> Most importantly, diverting agricultural resources to biofuel
>> production skyrockets the prices of food world wide. The United
>> Nations has officially stated that its charity programs can no longer
>> afford to feed the starving peoples of the world because of high food
>> costs created by biofuel production.  Jean Ziegler, the UN's Special
>> Rapporteur on the Right to Food, denounced biofuels as "a crime
>> against humanity" and called for a five-year moratorium on their
>> production.
>>
>> The heartless message the US Congress has given the low income people
>> of the world is quite clear; LET THEM EAT BIOFUELS!  Is the
>> unintentional starvation inflicted on the world by thoughtless
>> politicians any more morally excusable than the intentional starvation
>> of innocent civilians ordered by infamous dictators during times of
>> war?
>>
>> See "The biofuel hoax is causing a world food crisis!" at:
>> http://home.att.net/~meditation/bio-fuel-hoax.html
>>
>> Christopher Calder
>
>I suspect that the rampant rise in the cost of energy, specifically
>petroleum and petroleum products including fertilizers and everyting else
>associated with oil has more to do with the rapid rise in food prices than
>biofuels does. Biofuels are small potatoes compared to the recent increases
>in oil and gasoline.
>
>It's $100 oil stupid, not ethanol that is behind most food increases and
>there is no end in sight.

..thank you...

>To blame biofuels is to totally miss the biggest part of the problem.
>
>If biofuels were significant, they would create a downward pressure on
>petroleum and that is clearly not happening. Biofuels are a tiny fraction to
>world wide agriculture.

Oh my, logic applied, nice.