Biofuels and our idiot kings!

The biofuel fiasco is not just a major problem here in the USA, but

also in European as well. In Asia, China has finally banned the

production of biofuels from its own home grown food supply, because

the Chinese figured out they were staving their own people with an

idiotic policy. Now China only imports biofuels from Third World

countries, where they don't give a damn if the local, indigenous

people starve to death. Biofuel production displaces human food

supply agriculture, which means we intentionally feed cars and trucks

instead of people. Because of biofuel production, we shrink the human

food supply, speed global warming, create water shortages, erode

precious topsoil, pollute rivers, streams, and even oceans, destroy

forests, and then we pat ourselves on our back for being "GREEN."

The biofuel fad represents a kind of IQ and ethics test. It is not

surprising that many myopic, overweight American politicians are

failing that test spectacularly. Most Democrat and Republican

politicians have never been hungry a single day in their lives, and

they take food for granted. Democrats claim to "put people first",

not starving people first. Republicans claim to support the "free

market", not subsidized, socialized, monster energy schemes.

Obviously both political parties are living a lie, and neither are

true to their stated values. Our politicians are DANGEROUSLY OUT OF

TOUCH WITH REALITY, because they live in a small, insulated world of

lobbyists, back room deals, and political payoffs. Their political

payoff to the farm states has backfired, and the world is now

suffering a global food crisis, with 33 countries suffering political

instability as a result. The Secretary General of the United Nations

has called for rich nations to reconsider their decadent biofuels

policies, but Queen Nancy Pelosi and King George W. Bush do not

listen, and loudly proclaim "Let them eat biofuels!" 20 countries

have had food riots, with many violent deaths as a result. Deaths by

malnutrition due to American and European biofuel policies is already

in the millions. Globally, it is estimated that about 44,000 people

die each day from deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease.

That works out to over 16 million men, women, and children every year.

Our idiot kings are wearing no clothes, and the crowd still cheers!

Why?

- Look at this disturbing news story about biofuel advocating

politicians in the UK. -

http://new.edp24.co.uk/content/commentary/OneWorld.aspx

STILLBORN POLICY WAITING TO BECOME A MOM

by Dr. Andrew Boswell April 5th, 2008

Despite its insipid name, the Renewable Transport Fuels Obligation

(RTFO) is dangerous new legislation being introduced on April 15 that

forces biofuels to be blended into the UK fuel supply.

It is the policy child of wider EU plans to mandate massive amounts of

biofuels into petrol and diesel across Europe. For four years, I and

others have warned that these EU targets will wreak havoc on the

climate and food supplies, and eco-systems and people in the global

South.

Although, the RTFO has had a long gestation, only now are these

concerns being echoed by senior scientists and policy makers creating

a quandary for the government.

So who would relish the jobs of Ruth Kelly, transport minister, and

deputy, Jim Fitzpatrick, in implementing this legislation as the

voices calling for a suspension of the 'law of compulsory blending'

become stronger, louder and more persistent?

January 14 - a Royal Society report warned that biofuels could do more

damage than fossil fuels by accelerating rainforest destruction.

January 15 - policy 'grandfather', EU environment commissioner,

Stavros Dimas, tells the BBC that "environment problems caused by

biofuels are bigger than we thought", and suggests that targets might

have to be put on hold.

January 20 - a group of MPs, the Environmental Audit Committee

publishes a report 'Are Biofuels Sustainable?', that calls for

moratoriums of UK and EU targets.

February 8 - peer reviewed scientific studies show that converting

land for biofuel plantations creates a biofuel 'carbon debt'. It would

take 840 years of biofuel production to repay the carbon debt in

destroying peatland rainforest. Even for agricultural land reclaimed

from US conservation land (similar to set-aside in UK), the figure is

decades.

Asked by a journalist how policymakers might react, I replied that I

could only imagine that London and Brussels were in panic. Within 10

days, Ruth Kelly announced the 'Gallagher Review' on the indirect

impacts of biofuel policy - a desperate response to this research.

February 26 - the UN's World Food Programme warned that due to rising

food prices, it is short of $0.5bn just to meet existing food aid

deliveries. Its advisers estimate that the rush to biofuels is 30pc of

the cause of these rising food prices.

Meanwhile, Europe plans for a 12-fold EU increase of wheat based

ethanol refineries. Last year's UK wheat surplus was around 0.75

million tonnes, and ministers here plan an expansion in ethanol

refineries specifically using wheat that will take the UK into a 3

million tonnes deficit by 2010.

March 8 - the government chief scientist, John Beddington, warns that

the rush towards biofuels is theatening world food production and the

lives of billions of people.

March 24 - Prof Bob Watson, DEFRA chief scientist, says "it would

obviously be insane if we had a policy to try and reduce greenhouse

gas emissions through the use of biofuels that's actually leading to

an increase in the greenhouse gases from biofuels." - a none too

oblique reference to the RTFO.

Yet DEFRA will disregard its chief scientist, and the government carry

on regardless, as when I asked DEFRA minister, Joan Ruddock, on the

March 28 EDP 'On the Spot' online debate - her bland response "the

advice of our chief scientist, Bob Watson, will of course continue to

inform our future thinking on this subject."

On April 1, RTFO minister, Jim Fitzpatrick gave the thin excuse to

Parliament that the government could not suspend the introduction of

the RTFO without tiresome debates in both Houses of Parliament. Well,

yes, but isn't that what Parliament is for when it is clear that

legislation is dangerously misconceived?

And how independent can the 'thinking' of Gallagher Review be, when it

will be carried out by the Renewable Fuels Agency that was set up by

the Department of Transport to roll out biofuels? It's rather like

asking Dr Frankenstein to appraise his creation. In any case, its

initial report is late June, two-and-a-half months after the RTFO

starts on April Biofools Day.

The RTFO is a stillborn policy for it is unviable as a mechanism to

reduce UK carbon emissions and there is now little public confidence

in it. Further, the RTFO is an irrelevance anyway as the EU plans to

do away with any member country biofuel legislation after 2010 - they

are seeking to impose European-wide legislation for much greater

biofuel levels from then on. So the policy may be stillborn, but the

monster still exists.

April Biofools Day will be marked by protests on April 15 including a

demonstration outside Downing Street at 6pm, but the real work is in

stopping the monster - see http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk for details.

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For all the biofuel facts, see - http://home.att.net/~meditation/bio-fuel-hoax.html

For biofuel disaster news, see - http://home.att.net/~meditation/biofuel-news.html

Christopher Calder

Rightwinghank wrote:

> On Apr 6, 2:15 pm, "calderh...@yahoo.com" <calderh...@yahoo.com>

> wrote:

>

> Dear Chris,

>

> People cause polution.

>

> There are so many people now that the world cannot heal itself from

> the

>

> filth we leave.

>

> The only answer to climate change and polution of our land and oceans

> is

>

> population control.

>

> So.....

>

> I say.....give us MORE biofuels.

>

> Use the spare corn to make more....dont give it away to Africa.

>

I can use oil or alcohol, it doesn't matter, but the Poor in Africa that

want to eat, they prefer we use something other than food. Liberals

don't care about the poor in Africa since they promote using food.

> Otherwise...how can I get to my local Walmart?

>

> love

> hank

<calderhome@yahoo.com> wrote

> The biofuel fiasco is not just a major problem here in the USA, but

> also in European as well.

MMMMMMMMOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNN

"Poetic Justice" <@http://Poetic-Justice.Talk-n-Dog.com> wrote

> I can use oil or alcohol, it doesn't matter, but the Poor in Africa that

> want to eat, they prefer we use something other than food.

Feed them AmeriKKKan KKKonservatives.

KKKonservatives are worthless Vermin and have a high protein content.

Fat NeoKKKonservatives like the Lying Rush Limbaugh can also be rendered

for cooking oil, candle wax, or fuel oil.