TK was exactly right. OT

[ST]

On 6/25/08 5:28 AM, in article
48684459-c978-46d5-b1a4-97451d2aea61@d45g2000hsc.googlegroups.com, "Bill C"
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On Jun 24, 7:41 pm, SLAVE of THE STATE <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Jun 24, 3:40 pm, Bill C <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> That was mine not, Ben's.
>>
>> While I've slipped in comments to older posts/attrib's before, I
>> almost always leave the attrib markers in place.  This time I did not
>> slip in a comment to an older Ben posting, nor did I misplace my
>> comment according to the attrib markers.
>>
>> Back to the point: It is a confidence game.
>
> Not sure if I would've supported buying/taking ANWR, but now that I,
> through my involuntary contribution, own it, and I'm gonna pretend the
> system might work, then I'm happier treating it like a painting on a
> wall. Just as much fun to look at and does a lot more good though.
> Once in a while, if enough of us scream at them, they actually listen.
> They took our money, they bought it, we own it.
> Bill C

http://tinyurl.com/5lrtbv

Is Ethanol Killing Poor People?

Dr. Merrill Matthews of the Institute for Policy Innovation says the poor
may pay the price for cleaner air.

Congress passed legislation in 2005 requiring gasoline to include more
ethanol, a biofuel made from corn.

However, Reuters News Agency reports that the United Nations special food
envoy is warning that using more biofuels could ³lead to hundreds of
thousands of deaths from hunger worldwide.²

More biofuel usage increases the demand for corn and sugar, making those
food products more expensive, which hurts the poor. The Mexican government,
for example, has considered imposing price controls on corn because the
price of corn tortillas, a Mexican staple food, has been rising so fast.

Laws have consequences. Biofuels may make the air a little cleaner; they
also may make the poor a lot hungrier.

 

[Fred Fredburger]

ST wrote:

> You guys are so full of **** and yourselves!
>
> HE SAID... (and I agreed) "This biofuels **** is gonna take all the corn the
> USA gives to feed the worlds hungry and they are gonna starve!!!"

Hasn't happened.

Even though you've cherry picked his statements, you still haven't come
up with one that's demonstrably true.

 

[ST]

On 6/27/08 9:11 AM, in article [email protected],
"Fred Fredburger" <[email protected]> wrote:

> ST wrote:
>
>> You guys are so full of **** and yourselves!
>>
>> HE SAID... (and I agreed) "This biofuels **** is gonna take all the corn the
>> USA gives to feed the worlds hungry and they are gonna starve!!!"
>
> Hasn't happened.
>
> Even though you've cherry picked his statements, you still haven't come
> up with one that's demonstrably true.


You are such a koolaid idiot............

http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/2007/071026_Ziegler.doc.htm

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/430697/un_biofuels_starving_people_
are_a_crime.html


U.N.: Biofuels Starving People, Are a "Crime Against Humanity"
Biofuel Growth Causing Starvation

 

[ST]

On 6/27/08 7:54 PM, in article C48AF5F6.57D2D%[email protected], "ST"
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On 6/27/08 9:11 AM, in article [email protected],
> "Fred Fredburger" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> ST wrote:
>>
>>> You guys are so full of **** and yourselves!
>>>
>>> HE SAID... (and I agreed) "This biofuels **** is gonna take all the corn the
>>> USA gives to feed the worlds hungry and they are gonna starve!!!"
>>
>> Hasn't happened.
>>
>> Even though you've cherry picked his statements, you still haven't come
>> up with one that's demonstrably true.
>
>
> You are such a koolaid idiot............
>
> http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/2007/071026_Ziegler.doc.htm
>
> http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/430697/un_biofuels_starving_people_
> are_a_crime.html
>
>
> U.N.: Biofuels Starving People, Are a "Crime Against Humanity"
> Biofuel Growth Causing Starvation
>

Here is another one from a PROGRESSIVE website!

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/29/8595/

Published on Tuesday, April 29, 2008
by Environmental News Service

UN: Biofuel Production ŒCriminal Path¹ to Global Food Crisis

 

[Bill C]

On Jun 27, 10:58 pm, ST <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 6/27/08 7:54 PM, in article C48AF5F6.57D2D%[email protected], "ST"
>
>
>
>
>
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 6/27/08 9:11 AM, in article [email protected],
> > "Fred Fredburger" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> ST wrote:
>
> >>> You guys are so full of **** and yourselves!
>
> >>> HE SAID... (and I agreed) "This biofuels **** is gonna take all the corn the
> >>> USA gives to feed the worlds hungry and they are gonna starve!!!"
>
> >> Hasn't happened.
>
> >> Even though you've cherry picked his statements, you still haven't come
> >> up with one that's demonstrably true.
>
> > You are such a koolaid idiot............
>
> >http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/2007/071026_Ziegler.doc.htm
>
> >http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/430697/un_biofuels_starving_...
> > are_a_crime.html
>
> > U.N.: Biofuels Starving People, Are a "Crime Against Humanity"
> > Biofuel Growth Causing Starvation
>
> Here is another one from a PROGRESSIVE website!
>
> http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/29/8595/
>
> Published on Tuesday, April 29, 2008
>  by Environmental News Service
>
> UN: Biofuel Production ŒCriminal Path¹ to Global Food Crisis- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

I'd read both of those. Should've linked them, along with the Guardian
piece.
Bill C

 

[Bret]

On Jun 27, 8:54 pm, ST <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 6/27/08 9:11 AM, in article [email protected],
>
> "Fred Fredburger" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > ST wrote:
>
> >> You guys are so full of **** and yourselves!
>
> >> HE SAID... (and I agreed) "This biofuels **** is gonna take all the corn the
> >> USA gives to feed the worlds hungry and they are gonna starve!!!"
>
> > Hasn't happened.
>
> > Even though you've cherry picked his statements, you still haven't come
> > up with one that's demonstrably true.
>
> You are such a koolaid idiot............
>
> http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/2007/071026_Ziegler.doc.htm
>
> http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/430697/un_biofuels_starving_...
> are_a_crime.html
>
> U.N.: Biofuels Starving People, Are a "Crime Against Humanity"
> Biofuel Growth Causing Starvation

The first article talks of a right to food whether or not it can be
paid for. I never knew you were such a liberal Stevie.

 

[Bret]

On Jun 27, 8:54 pm, ST <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 6/27/08 9:11 AM, in article [email protected],
>
> "Fred Fredburger" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > ST wrote:
>
> >> You guys are so full of **** and yourselves!
>
> >> HE SAID... (and I agreed) "This biofuels **** is gonna take all the corn the
> >> USA gives to feed the worlds hungry and they are gonna starve!!!"
>
> > Hasn't happened.
>
> > Even though you've cherry picked his statements, you still haven't come
> > up with one that's demonstrably true.
>
> You are such a koolaid idiot............
>
> http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/2007/071026_Ziegler.doc.htm
>
> http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/430697/un_biofuels_starving_...
> are_a_crime.html
>
> U.N.: Biofuels Starving People, Are a "Crime Against Humanity"
> Biofuel Growth Causing Starvation

The first article talks of a right to food whether or not it can be
paid for. I never knew you were such a liberal Stevie.

 

[Donald Munro]

Bret wrote:
> The first article talks of a right to food whether or not it can be paid
> for. I never knew you were such a liberal Stevie.

He's been assimilated into the liberal plot. Ben needs some help
with the project in Asia.

 

[Robert Chung]

On Jun 28, 10:13 am, Bret <[email protected]> wrote:

> The first article talks of a right to food whether or not it can be
> paid for. I never knew you were such a liberal Stevie.

Fat people always think they have a right to food.

 

[ST]

On 6/28/08 10:57 AM, in article
[email protected], "Donald Munro"
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Bret wrote:
>> The first article talks of a right to food whether or not it can be paid
>> for. I never knew you were such a liberal Stevie.
>
> He's been assimilated into the liberal plot. Ben needs some help
> with the project in Asia.

Read the article more assbag!!


The creation of ³pure fuels² or biofuels to protect the environment and
reduce oil dependence was not a bad idea, but its negative impact on hunger
would be catastrophic, Mr. Ziegler said. When tons of maize, wheat, beans
and other food staples were converted to fuel, food prices rose and arable
land was lost to food production. Last year, the price of wheat doubled and
of maize quadrupled.

He said that, currently, 31 of 53 African States had to import food. As
prices rose, the poorest countries could not pay, and the poorest people,
generally living without access to subsistence farming, could not purchase
more expensive foodstuffs. The amount of corn that needed to be burned to
make enough ethanol to fill a single car¹s fuel tank could fill a child for
an entire year.

 

[Bret]

On Jun 28, 3:04 pm, ST <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 6/28/08 10:57 AM, in article
> [email protected], "Donald Munro"
>
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Bret wrote:
> >> The first article talks of a right to food whether or not it can be paid
> >> for. I never knew you were such a liberal Stevie.
>
> > He's been assimilated into the liberal plot. Ben needs some help
> > with the project in Asia.
>
> Read the article more assbag!!
>
> The creation of ³pure fuels² or biofuels to protect the environment and
> reduce oil dependence was not a bad idea, but its negative impact on hunger
> would be catastrophic, Mr. Ziegler said.  When tons of maize, wheat, beans
> and other food staples were converted to fuel, food prices rose and arable
> land was lost to food production.  Last year, the price of wheat doubled and
> of maize quadrupled.
>
> He said that, currently, 31 of 53 African States had to import food.  As
> prices rose, the poorest countries could not pay, and the poorest people,
> generally living without access to subsistence farming, could not purchase
> more expensive foodstuffs.  The amount of corn that needed to be burnedto
> make enough ethanol to fill a single car¹s fuel tank could fill a childfor
> an entire year.

You seem to be saying that growers have a moral obligation to produce
food no matter the market forces involved. Why do you hate market
forces? How many children could be fed with the corn used to produce
the high fructose corn syrup that you consume Stevie?

 

[Fred Fredburger]

ST wrote:
> On 6/27/08 9:11 AM, in article [email protected],
> "Fred Fredburger" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> ST wrote:
>>
>>> You guys are so full of **** and yourselves!
>>>
>>> HE SAID... (and I agreed) "This biofuels **** is gonna take all the corn the
>>> USA gives to feed the worlds hungry and they are gonna starve!!!"
>> Hasn't happened.
>>
>> Even though you've cherry picked his statements, you still haven't come
>> up with one that's demonstrably true.
>
>
> You are such a koolaid idiot............
>
> http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/2007/071026_Ziegler.doc.htm
>
> http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/430697/un_biofuels_starving_people_
> are_a_crime.html
>
>
> U.N.: Biofuels Starving People, Are a "Crime Against Humanity"
> Biofuel Growth Causing Starvation
>

You should read your own links.

"Jean Ziegler, Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, reported that
biofuel could have a catastrophic negative impact on world hunger. "

Do you know what the word "could" means? It's not the same thing as "did".

I know, I'm being too subtle for you again.

 

[Fred Fredburger]

ST wrote:
> On 6/27/08 7:54 PM, in article C48AF5F6.57D2D%[email protected], "ST"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 6/27/08 9:11 AM, in article [email protected],
>> "Fred Fredburger" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> ST wrote:
>>>
>>>> You guys are so full of **** and yourselves!
>>>>
>>>> HE SAID... (and I agreed) "This biofuels **** is gonna take all the corn the
>>>> USA gives to feed the worlds hungry and they are gonna starve!!!"
>>> Hasn't happened.
>>>
>>> Even though you've cherry picked his statements, you still haven't come
>>> up with one that's demonstrably true.
>>
>> You are such a koolaid idiot............
>>
>> http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/2007/071026_Ziegler.doc.htm
>>
>> http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/430697/un_biofuels_starving_people_
>> are_a_crime.html
>>
>>
>> U.N.: Biofuels Starving People, Are a "Crime Against Humanity"
>> Biofuel Growth Causing Starvation
>>
>
> Here is another one from a PROGRESSIVE website!
>
> http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/29/8595/
>
> Published on Tuesday, April 29, 2008
> by Environmental News Service
>
> UN: Biofuel Production ŒCriminal Path¹ to Global Food Crisis
>

The claim was that TK was right when he said that biofuels will starve
millions.

Will starve millions. Not 'Might starve millions, under certain
conditions, if some set of bad decisions are made. Maybe. Perhaps.'

You're such a candyass.

 

[Ryan Cousineau]

In article
<[email protected]>,
Bret <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Jun 28, 3:04 pm, ST <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 6/28/08 10:57 AM, in article
> > [email protected], "Donald Munro"
> >
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Bret wrote:
> > >> The first article talks of a right to food whether or not it can be paid
> > >> for. I never knew you were such a liberal Stevie.
> >
> > > He's been assimilated into the liberal plot. Ben needs some help
> > > with the project in Asia.
> >
> > Read the article more assbag!!
> >
> > The creation of ³pure fuels² or biofuels to protect the environment and
> > reduce oil dependence was not a bad idea, but its negative impact on hunger
> > would be catastrophic, Mr. Ziegler said.  When tons of maize, wheat, beans
> > and other food staples were converted to fuel, food prices rose and arable
> > land was lost to food production.  Last year, the price of wheat doubled and
> > of maize quadrupled.
> >
> > He said that, currently, 31 of 53 African States had to import food.  As
> > prices rose, the poorest countries could not pay, and the poorest people,
> > generally living without access to subsistence farming, could not purchase
> > more expensive foodstuffs.  The amount of corn that needed to be burned to
> > make enough ethanol to fill a single car¹s fuel tank could fill a child for
> > an entire year.
>
> You seem to be saying that growers have a moral obligation to produce
> food no matter the market forces involved. Why do you hate market
> forces? How many children could be fed with the corn used to produce
> the high fructose corn syrup that you consume Stevie?

Well, the thing I don't get about this is that virtually every African
state that can't feed itself is that way due to something like civil
war, non-civil war, or being led by Robert Mugabe.

Bad domestic policy has done far more to destroy African agriculture
than ethanol.

--
Ryan Cousineau [email protected] http://www.wiredcola.com/
"In other newsgroups, they killfile trolls."
"In rec.bicycles.racing, we coach them."

 

[Bill C]

On Jun 28, 7:56 pm, Ryan Cousineau <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Well, the thing I don't get about this is that virtually every African
> state that can't feed itself is that way due to something like civil
> war, non-civil war, or being led by Robert Mugabe.
>
> Bad domestic policy has done far more to destroy African agriculture
> than ethanol.
>
> --
> Ryan Cousineau [email protected]://www.wiredcola.com/
> "In other newsgroups, they killfile trolls."
> "In rec.bicycles.racing, we coach them."- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

That's something they don't want to talk about, and I got killed for
bringing up with respect to the Eritrean/Ethiopian war. This has been
a consideration that has been forcibly ignored for ages. Starving
countries are fighting wars, and the only way their armies are able to
stay in the field, and equipped is by international food aid, much of
which has been sold off to buy ammunition and arms too. It happened
with USAID and the VC, by the VC's own reports after the war. Giap
stated that at times the only way they were able to keep fighting was
by taking the aid from villages since they weren't getting enough
through from China due to the interdiction of the supply system.
Both Eritrea and Ethiopia have been found to be doing the same thing,
except even worse because they are shipping it right back out in
exchange for munitions while their people starve and it's ignored by
the UN and world community for the most part. Food is used as a weapon
quite naturally in most conflicts. Seige from ancient times on was
based on starving the enemy into giving up. Why should that change for
people at war? Treaties don't mean **** and noone but Europe, the US,
Canada, and Israel is re4ally even held to any standards.
Iran has signed every International treaty on protecting minors, and
still continues to execute minors for homosexuality and other things
regularly. I don't see any outcry to bring their leadership before the
Hague. Same for Mugabe, Castro, etc...How many Khmer Rouge have
actually been prosecuted? You can count them on fingers. One of the
Hanoi Hilton folks who tortured McCain and others is getting play for
endorsing McCain for Pres. No arrest warrant, no tough questions, just
PR. I was watching closely to see if either Amnesty, or HRW would show
any signs of outrage over the Taleban dragging those two folks out,
and summarily executing them for supposedly spying in front of 5000
cheering folks. Nowhere to be seen, but lots on Gitmo, again.
Haven't seen any calls for the UN folks to be brought before the
Hague for the rapes, human trafficking, etc...by their "peacekeepers".
All I've seen is the UN claiming blanket immunity for any actions
during UN missions, especially in respect to the massacres in the
Balkans.
So, YEP, biofuels are definitely the real problem Ryan, and you just
need to be less informed, and inquisitive.
I'm beginning to get the feeling that biofuels, in the world food
debate are taking the place that guns have in the crime debate. Easy
to point at some article while society, policy, and history are
purposely ignored.
Bill C

 

[ST]

On 6/28/08 4:16 PM, in article
[email protected], "Bret"
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On Jun 28, 3:04 pm, ST <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 6/28/08 10:57 AM, in article
>> [email protected], "Donald Munro"
>>
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Bret wrote:
>>>> The first article talks of a right to food whether or not it can be paid
>>>> for. I never knew you were such a liberal Stevie.
>>
>>> He's been assimilated into the liberal plot. Ben needs some help
>>> with the project in Asia.
>>
>> Read the article more assbag!!
>>
>> The creation of ³pure fuels² or biofuels to protect the environment and
>> reduce oil dependence was not a bad idea, but its negative impact on hunger
>> would be catastrophic, Mr. Ziegler said.  When tons of maize, wheat, beans
>> and other food staples were converted to fuel, food prices rose and arable
>> land was lost to food production.  Last year, the price of wheat doubled and
>> of maize quadrupled.
>>
>> He said that, currently, 31 of 53 African States had to import food.  As
>> prices rose, the poorest countries could not pay, and the poorest people,
>> generally living without access to subsistence farming, could not purchase
>> more expensive foodstuffs.  The amount of corn that needed to be burned to
>> make enough ethanol to fill a single car¹s fuel tank could fill a child for
>> an entire year.
>
> You seem to be saying that growers have a moral obligation to produce
> food no matter the market forces involved. Why do you hate market
> forces? How many children could be fed with the corn used to produce
> the high fructose corn syrup that you consume Stevie?

Jesus you guys are dolts! That is what the article says.

 

[ST]

On 6/28/08 4:17 PM, in article [email protected],
"Fred Fredburger" <[email protected]> wrote:

> ST wrote:
>> On 6/27/08 9:11 AM, in article [email protected],
>> "Fred Fredburger" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> ST wrote:
>>>
>>>> You guys are so full of **** and yourselves!
>>>>
>>>> HE SAID... (and I agreed) "This biofuels **** is gonna take all the corn
>>>> the
>>>> USA gives to feed the worlds hungry and they are gonna starve!!!"
>>> Hasn't happened.
>>>
>>> Even though you've cherry picked his statements, you still haven't come
>>> up with one that's demonstrably true.
>>
>>
>> You are such a koolaid idiot............
>>
>> http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/2007/071026_Ziegler.doc.htm
>>
>> http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/430697/un_biofuels_starving_people_
>> are_a_crime.html
>>
>>
>> U.N.: Biofuels Starving People, Are a "Crime Against Humanity"
>> Biofuel Growth Causing Starvation
>>
>
> You should read your own links.
>
> "Jean Ziegler, Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, reported that
> biofuel could have a catastrophic negative impact on world hunger. "
>
> Do you know what the word "could" means? It's not the same thing as "did".
>
> I know, I'm being too subtle for you again.

Keep on trying to weasle out assbag!
This **** is all over the internet news!

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0806/S00413.htm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/nov/06/comment.biofuels

The western appetite for biofuels is causing starvation in the poor world

 

[Robert Chung]

On Jun 28, 4:56 pm, Ryan Cousineau <[email protected]> wrote:

> Well, the thing I don't get about this is that virtually every African
> state that can't feed itself is that way due to something like civil
> war, non-civil war, or being led by Robert Mugabe.
>
> Bad domestic policy has done far more to destroy African agriculture
> than ethanol.

You know as much about African agriculture as you do about economics.
The fundamental problem with Africa's food production, especially in
Sub-Saharan Africa, is poor soil fertility, exacerbated by climate
patterns that aren't conducive to most of the modern high-yield crops.

 

[ST]

On 6/28/08 4:56 PM, in article
rcousine-8D3F3F.16563428062008@[74.223.185.199.nw.nuvox.net], "Ryan
Cousineau" <[email protected]> wrote:

> In article
> <[email protected]>,
> Bret <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Jun 28, 3:04 pm, ST <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On 6/28/08 10:57 AM, in article
>>> [email protected], "Donald Munro"
>>>
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Bret wrote:
>>>>> The first article talks of a right to food whether or not it can be paid
>>>>> for. I never knew you were such a liberal Stevie.
>>>
>>>> He's been assimilated into the liberal plot. Ben needs some help
>>>> with the project in Asia.
>>>
>>> Read the article more assbag!!
>>>
>>> The creation of ³pure fuels² or biofuels to protect the environment and
>>> reduce oil dependence was not a bad idea, but its negative impact on hunger
>>> would be catastrophic, Mr. Ziegler said.  When tons of maize, wheat, beans
>>> and other food staples were converted to fuel, food prices rose and arable
>>> land was lost to food production.  Last year, the price of wheat doubled and
>>> of maize quadrupled.
>>>
>>> He said that, currently, 31 of 53 African States had to import food.  As
>>> prices rose, the poorest countries could not pay, and the poorest people,
>>> generally living without access to subsistence farming, could not purchase
>>> more expensive foodstuffs.  The amount of corn that needed to be burned to
>>> make enough ethanol to fill a single car¹s fuel tank could fill a child for
>>> an entire year.
>>
>> You seem to be saying that growers have a moral obligation to produce
>> food no matter the market forces involved. Why do you hate market
>> forces? How many children could be fed with the corn used to produce
>> the high fructose corn syrup that you consume Stevie?
>
> Well, the thing I don't get about this is that virtually every African
> state that can't feed itself is that way due to something like civil
> war, non-civil war, or being led by Robert Mugabe.
>
> Bad domestic policy has done far more to destroy African agriculture
> than ethanol.

DING! DING! DING!! You are correct!
I thought the USA was the only bad government!

That is one of the reasons the USA is the BIGGEST supporter of the poor and
needy than any other country in the world! BUT!! Now we are taking half of
those crops we export to those countries for food and BURNING it to make
ethanol for some utopian progressive ideals?!?!?!

And now......... It contributes greatly to the starvation of millions!

 

[Kurgan Gringioni]

On Jun 28, 4:56 pm, Ryan Cousineau <[email protected]> wrote:
> In article
> <[email protected]>,
>
>
>
>
>
>  Bret <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Jun 28, 3:04 pm, ST <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 6/28/08 10:57 AM, in article
> > > [email protected], "Donald Munro"
>
> > > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Bret wrote:
> > > >> The first article talks of a right to food whether or not it can be paid
> > > >> for. I never knew you were such a liberal Stevie.
>
> > > > He's been assimilated into the liberal plot. Ben needs some help
> > > > with the project in Asia.
>
> > > Read the article more assbag!!
>
> > > The creation of ³pure fuels² or biofuels to protect the environment and
> > > reduce oil dependence was not a bad idea, but its negative impact on hunger
> > > would be catastrophic, Mr. Ziegler said.  When tons of maize, wheat, beans
> > > and other food staples were converted to fuel, food prices rose and arable
> > > land was lost to food production.  Last year, the price of wheat doubled and
> > > of maize quadrupled.
>
> > > He said that, currently, 31 of 53 African States had to import food.  As
> > > prices rose, the poorest countries could not pay, and the poorest people,
> > > generally living without access to subsistence farming, could not purchase
> > > more expensive foodstuffs.  The amount of corn that needed to be burned to
> > > make enough ethanol to fill a single car¹s fuel tank could fill a child for
> > > an entire year.
>
> > You seem to be saying that growers have a moral obligation to produce
> > food no matter the market forces involved. Why do you hate market
> > forces? How many children could be fed with the corn used to produce
> > the high fructose corn syrup that you consume Stevie?
>
> Well, the thing I don't get about this is that virtually every African
> state that can't feed itself is that way due to something like civil
> war, non-civil war, or being led by Robert Mugabe.



Dumbass -


That is a good observation. The fundamental problem in many African
nations is political instability/anarchy. It is a feature which, if
present, overrides all others.


thanks,

K. Gringioni.