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calderhome@yahoo.com wrote:

We use biofuel because oil is price is high. The one who sell oil
are the *first* responsable for this.

> 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