27f0aa2f   
   XPost: soc.culture.swiss, soc.culture.indian, alt.politics.libertarian   
   XPost: nyc.politics   
   From: 1@1.1   
      
    wrote in message   
   news:b1477c0b-a62b-4194-a984-833bf200c8fd@26g2000hsk.googlegroups.com...   
   > Biofuel production will contribute to the avoidable deaths of at least   
   > between 10 and 20 million people in the year 2008.  Economists   
   > estimate that 30 million people could be going hungry in Bangladesh   
   > alone.  4 billion humans live in poverty, and biofuel production will   
   > push millions of the poorest families into the clutches of death,   
   > thanks to our leaders turning mountain's of food into fuel.  Unless   
   > the biofuel bandwagon is stopped, by the year 2020 the world will be   
   > diverting 400 million tons of grain each year into ethanol production,   
   > which is equal to the entire current global rice harvest.  There have   
   > been food riots in 22 countries, and 33 nations face political   
   > instability as staple food prices have risen 83% in the last 3 years   
   > according to the World Bank.  Biofuel production is equivalent to a   
   > new tax on food that starves the poor in order to feed money to rich   
   > agricultural corporations.   
   >   
   > German Development Minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul stated that   
   > production of biofuels is "30 to 70% responsible for the rapid rise in   
   > food prices."  Bill Clinton stated that "What's really hurting the   
   > food markets is America moving into ethanol."  Oil price increases   
   > have not shrunk the human food supply, but biofuel production has!   
   > The more biofuels we produce, the less food we have to eat, because we   
   > grow biofuel crops, even switchgrass, using the same land, water,   
   > fertilizer, farm equipment, and labor we use to grow food.  New   
   > studies show that ethanol from cellulose (switchgrass, wood chips,   
   > crop waste, etc.) will never been economically viable, so biofuels are   
   > a dead-end technology.   
      
   Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit, and more bullshit propaganda launched by the   
   oil cartel.   
   I just returned from a vacation in Brazil, where there's plenty of food and   
   biofuel. They have been using ethanol since the seventies, and Sao Paulo, a   
   city of 15 million people, is a breath of fresh air compared to Los Angeles.   
   The world's problem with food shortages can be cured by throwing Clinton,   
   Bush and their likes in prison, where they belong! When that's done, all   
   other countries will be able to spend the money on food and biofuel   
   production, instead of missiles and war planes, to defend themselves against   
   the American terror.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)