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The world is running out of wheat because so many farmers have
switched to growing corn for ethanol production. US wheat supplies
are at 60 year lows and globally wheat supplies are at 50 year lows.
Consider that the world population in 1958 was just under 3 billion
people and right now it is well over 6.6 billion people. UK
newspapers are declaring that the world only has a 10 week supply of
wheat left. I don't know what is going to happen in May, but it can't
be good.
Biofuels are far worse for the environment than using ordinary
gasoline!
The highly respected journal SCIENCE recently published the "Use of
U.S. Croplands for Biofuels Increases Greenhouse Gases Through
Emissions from Land Use Change," which states that the
production of biofuels from grains or switchgrass greatly increases
the release of greenhouse gases and is far worse for the environment
than using ordinary gasoline.
See story at: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1151861
Also see a European study on biofuels that found the same thing,
"Biofuels: an unfolding disaster" (pdf 514kb) at:
http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/docs/ECOS-6-5.pdf
Biofuel production is causing worldwide food price hyperinflation by
dramatically shrinking the human food supply. According to the United
Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization, global food prices rose
40% in 2007 alone, and thus United Nations food official Jean Ziegler
called biofuels a "crime against humanity." Food prices in America
rose .7% in January, 2008, and will continue to rise quickly because
of massive biofuel production. News reports show people in Haiti
resorting to eating mud because American biofuel mandates have made
grains unaffordable. As we heartlessly starve the world's poor,
pressure for illegal immigration to the USA continues to rise. Growing
switchgrass to make biofuels will not stop this trend, as land, water,
fertilizer, farm equipment, and labor will still be diverted from food
production with soaring food prices the result. When America
foolishly turns its food into fuel, we raise food prices globally
which gives other countries a strong financial incentive to burn down
rainforests in order to grow more food. Rainforests in Brazil,
Malaysia, Indonesia, Africa, and the Philippines are on fire right now
because of United States biofuel mandates. Biofuel production
aggravates water shortages, and it takes 9,000 gallons of water to
create just 1 gallon of biodiesel.
The "energy independence" argument for biofuels is a hoax because
American biodiesel made out of soybeans costs us the equivalent of
making regular diesel out of oil at $232 a barrel. Making ethanol
from corn costs us the equivalent of oil at $81. a barrel and uses 28%
more fossil fuels than gasoline. Only massive government subsides
makes biofuels affordable at the pump. Biofuel manufacturers have
become a malignant force in America like the tobacco companies, not
caring who they harm as long as they make their fortune.
Global biofuel production will dangerously heat up earth's atmosphere
because farming contributes more to global warming each year than all
the land, sea, and air transportation combined. This destruction
makes no sense strategically because by 2015 it is estimated that oil
from American shale will cost only $30 a barrel to manufacture, and
there is more oil potential in Colorado shale alone than the entire
Middle East had before drilling began in Iran in 1908. Making
hydrogen fuel through the electrolysis of water via electricity
provided by nuclear energy would be far better for the environment
than farming biofuel crops, and the world has enough nuclear fuel to
last for thousands of years.
The world is suffering a global food crisis, so it is better to drill
in ANWR for energy than in our food! Please work to have all biofuel
mandates, subsidies, and incentives repealed in order to LOWER FOOD
PRICES now! The biofuel backlash has just begun, and those
politicians who stay loyal to the worst idea of the 21st century will
find themselves very unpopular with voters when food prices double yet
again during a period of economic recession. At present, the only
biofuel ideas that hold promise are biodiesel made from algae and
ethanol made from garbage, but those technologies are still
experimental, unproven, and years away from commercial application.
Please see 10 important reasons to oppose biofuel production. - "The
biofuel hoax is causing a world food crisis!" at:
http://home.att.net/~meditation/bio-fuel-hoax.html
For links to shocking news stories about the world food crisis, see:
http://home.att.net/~meditation/biofuel-news.html
Christopher Calder
switched to growing corn for ethanol production. US wheat supplies
are at 60 year lows and globally wheat supplies are at 50 year lows.
Consider that the world population in 1958 was just under 3 billion
people and right now it is well over 6.6 billion people. UK
newspapers are declaring that the world only has a 10 week supply of
wheat left. I don't know what is going to happen in May, but it can't
be good.
Biofuels are far worse for the environment than using ordinary
gasoline!
The highly respected journal SCIENCE recently published the "Use of
U.S. Croplands for Biofuels Increases Greenhouse Gases Through
Emissions from Land Use Change," which states that the
production of biofuels from grains or switchgrass greatly increases
the release of greenhouse gases and is far worse for the environment
than using ordinary gasoline.
See story at: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1151861
Also see a European study on biofuels that found the same thing,
"Biofuels: an unfolding disaster" (pdf 514kb) at:
http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/docs/ECOS-6-5.pdf
Biofuel production is causing worldwide food price hyperinflation by
dramatically shrinking the human food supply. According to the United
Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization, global food prices rose
40% in 2007 alone, and thus United Nations food official Jean Ziegler
called biofuels a "crime against humanity." Food prices in America
rose .7% in January, 2008, and will continue to rise quickly because
of massive biofuel production. News reports show people in Haiti
resorting to eating mud because American biofuel mandates have made
grains unaffordable. As we heartlessly starve the world's poor,
pressure for illegal immigration to the USA continues to rise. Growing
switchgrass to make biofuels will not stop this trend, as land, water,
fertilizer, farm equipment, and labor will still be diverted from food
production with soaring food prices the result. When America
foolishly turns its food into fuel, we raise food prices globally
which gives other countries a strong financial incentive to burn down
rainforests in order to grow more food. Rainforests in Brazil,
Malaysia, Indonesia, Africa, and the Philippines are on fire right now
because of United States biofuel mandates. Biofuel production
aggravates water shortages, and it takes 9,000 gallons of water to
create just 1 gallon of biodiesel.
The "energy independence" argument for biofuels is a hoax because
American biodiesel made out of soybeans costs us the equivalent of
making regular diesel out of oil at $232 a barrel. Making ethanol
from corn costs us the equivalent of oil at $81. a barrel and uses 28%
more fossil fuels than gasoline. Only massive government subsides
makes biofuels affordable at the pump. Biofuel manufacturers have
become a malignant force in America like the tobacco companies, not
caring who they harm as long as they make their fortune.
Global biofuel production will dangerously heat up earth's atmosphere
because farming contributes more to global warming each year than all
the land, sea, and air transportation combined. This destruction
makes no sense strategically because by 2015 it is estimated that oil
from American shale will cost only $30 a barrel to manufacture, and
there is more oil potential in Colorado shale alone than the entire
Middle East had before drilling began in Iran in 1908. Making
hydrogen fuel through the electrolysis of water via electricity
provided by nuclear energy would be far better for the environment
than farming biofuel crops, and the world has enough nuclear fuel to
last for thousands of years.
The world is suffering a global food crisis, so it is better to drill
in ANWR for energy than in our food! Please work to have all biofuel
mandates, subsidies, and incentives repealed in order to LOWER FOOD
PRICES now! The biofuel backlash has just begun, and those
politicians who stay loyal to the worst idea of the 21st century will
find themselves very unpopular with voters when food prices double yet
again during a period of economic recession. At present, the only
biofuel ideas that hold promise are biodiesel made from algae and
ethanol made from garbage, but those technologies are still
experimental, unproven, and years away from commercial application.
Please see 10 important reasons to oppose biofuel production. - "The
biofuel hoax is causing a world food crisis!" at:
http://home.att.net/~meditation/bio-fuel-hoax.html
For links to shocking news stories about the world food crisis, see:
http://home.att.net/~meditation/biofuel-news.html
Christopher Calder
