Biofuels causing starvation in the world and jacking U.S. food prices. That was almost the title of this thread.
An essential point that political leaders and the media have missed about the world food crisis is that rising oil prices have not shrunk the human food supply, but biofuel production has! It is quite different to just raise the price of something than to actually reduce its supply. Higher oil prices naturally raise the cost of everything that takes energy to produce, but on top of that United States and European Union policies have actually shrunk the human food supply by artificially mandating a shift of agricultural resources to biofuel production. President Bush's 2007 "Energy Independence and Security Act" turns our food into fuel, and is reminiscent of Chairman Mao Tse Tung's 1958 Five Year Plan, known as "The Great Leap Forward," in which China's agricultural based economy was forcefully shifted to greater industrial output.
The IMF is talking about stepping in. Because people are starving and wars are being fought over the illusion of oil being the end all. It is not that hard to imagine that these
fuckers http://www.newamericancentury.org/ don't mind people starving in the third world. They don't mind open borders in the U.S. and a million people behind bars.
Here they talk about some two million people smoking pot in the U.S.
I think there are that many in Los Angeles. Marijuana should be regulated and legalized, taxed like any other commodity. Instead of 100's of millions going to drug cartels we could be reaping that as tax dollars to fund education, roads and bridges.
Not ONLY is this common sense for America, now our politicians are destroying food prices by forcing corn production for biofuels. The starvation from these policies may cause deaths and economic ruin for millions in countries outside America.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree … t.biofuels
shaky old video, but the points are valid. Obviously hemp should be being grown and harvested.
An essential point that political leaders and the media have missed about the world food crisis is that rising oil prices have not shrunk the human food supply, but biofuel production has! It is quite different to just raise the price of something than to actually reduce its supply. Higher oil prices naturally raise the cost of everything that takes energy to produce, but on top of that United States and European Union policies have actually shrunk the human food supply by artificially mandating a shift of agricultural resources to biofuel production. President Bush's 2007 "Energy Independence and Security Act" turns our food into fuel, and is reminiscent of Chairman Mao Tse Tung's 1958 Five Year Plan, known as "The Great Leap Forward," in which China's agricultural based economy was forcefully shifted to greater industrial output.
The IMF is talking about stepping in. Because people are starving and wars are being fought over the illusion of oil being the end all. It is not that hard to imagine that these
fuckers http://www.newamericancentury.org/ don't mind people starving in the third world. They don't mind open borders in the U.S. and a million people behind bars.
Here they talk about some two million people smoking pot in the U.S.
I think there are that many in Los Angeles. Marijuana should be regulated and legalized, taxed like any other commodity. Instead of 100's of millions going to drug cartels we could be reaping that as tax dollars to fund education, roads and bridges.
Not ONLY is this common sense for America, now our politicians are destroying food prices by forcing corn production for biofuels. The starvation from these policies may cause deaths and economic ruin for millions in countries outside America.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree … t.biofuels
shaky old video, but the points are valid. Obviously hemp should be being grown and harvested.