The false hope of biofuels is pushing millions of people into theclutches of death!

The false hope of biofuels is pushing millions of people into the

clutches of death!

UN food official Jean Ziegler has repeatedly called biofuels "a crime

against humanity," and biofuel production will contribute to the

early, avoidable deaths of at least between 10 and 20 million people

in the year 2008 alone. In Bangladesh, economists estimate that 30

million of the country's 150 million people could be going hungry.

Only a post-disaster assessment by future studies can give an exact

body count for the Great Biofuel Famine. Of earth's 6.66 billion

residents, 4 billion live in poverty, and those at the bottom of that

group are already without sufficient food. Expanding biofuel

production will push millions of those poorest families into the

clutches of death, thanks to our leaders turning mountain's of food

into biofuel. Unless the biofuel bandwagon is stopped now, by the

year 2020 the world will be diverting 400 million tons of grain each

year for 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 due to the skyrocketing cost of

basic staple foods, whose price has risen 83% in the last 3 years.

Biofuel production is equivalent to a new tax on food that starves the

poor in order to feed money to rich agricultural corporations.

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. Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, the German Government Development

Minister, stated that production of biofuels is "30 to 70% responsible

for the rapid rise in food prices." Former President Bill Clinton

stated that "What's really hurting the food markets is America moving

into ethanol. People there are moving into corn and you have pasta

riots in Italy related to what some people are doing in farming in

America." The USDA states that by the end of May, US wheat supplies

will be lower than at any time since 1948 because so many wheat

farmers switched to growing corn for biofuel.

Biofuel farming and production accelerates global warming by

unleashing huge amounts of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxides

gases. Biofuel farming creates water pollution and water shortages,

and needlessly erodes precious topsoil. A new study says biofuels

from cellulose sources, such as switchgrass, wood chips, crop waste,

etc., will never be cost effective.

Ethanol fuel is not "clean." Ethanol blended fuels burn cleaner on a

per gallon basis, but not on a per mile basis, because ethanol

contains 30% less energy per gallon than gasoline. You have to burn

much more ethanol per miles traveled, so on a per mile basis ethanol

does not reduce automobile exhaust emissions.

Biofuels are a false hope. Every year the human race burns up the

equivalent of 400 years worth of total planetary vegetation in the

condensed form of fossil fuels. How are we ever going to replace all

of that concentrated biomass energy by growing a relatively small

volume of biofuel crops on our desperately overpopulated, fresh water

starved little planet?

Our politicians have created a world food crisis and famine, with

millions going hungry from Bangladesh to Louisiana. President Bush's

Katrina style mishandling of the United States food supply may be the

biggest man made disaster of the 21st century. How are America's

homeless, veterans, the disabled, the elderly, and all those living on

low fixed incomes going to survive our new "GREEN" policies, which

John McCain, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama publicly support?

Please ask why our politicians are supporting biofuels and all the

financial loses, environmental destruction, food cost inflation, and

tragic global starvation they cause.

For all the details on biofuels and better alternatives, see "The

biofuel hoax is causing a world food crisis!" at:

http://home.att.net/~meditation/bio-fuel-hoax.html

Christopher Calder

calderhome@yahoo.com wrote:

> The false hope of biofuels is pushing millions of people into the

> clutches of death!

>

> UN food official Jean Ziegler has repeatedly called biofuels "a crime

> against humanity,"

Not exactly, kiddo. Let's have the full quote, eh?

"So it's a crime against humanity - it's a crime against humanity to convert

agricultural productive soil into soil ... which will be burned into

biofuel," Ziegler told a news conference. "What has to be stopped is ... the

growing catastrophe of the massacre (by) hunger in the world."

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=algae+biofuels&btnG=Search

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