Branson Hunter wrote:
> Corn-based Ethanol: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
>
> May 09 2006
>
> The corn-based ethanol explosion is doing an about-turn of what its
> backers intended. The Biofuel manifest destiny acceptance over the
> globe is dramatically accelerating global warming. In the last six
> months, 750,000 acres of Brazilian rain forest lost in the last six
> months.
I think someone is confused about who is backing the Brazilian ethanol
economy.
That an imposing number, so is one person could be fed for a
> whole year on the corn it takes to fill an ethanol-fueled SUV. Land
> taken out-of-use to grow corn-based ethanol, or other biofood-fuels,
> are sending the price of food around the world sky-rocketing, and
> fueling inflation.
Not to any great degree, when compared to the engineered collapse of the
Dollar and its effect on oil prices worldwide.
> Biofood-fuels boldly are **** world-hunger closer to the extreme brink
> of starvation. They've turned out to be environmentally disasterous.
Disastrous.
> Even so, the President is promoting corn ethanol as the "fuel of the
> future." He just sighed a bipartisan energy bill -- a full steam ahead
> approach -- establi****ng Corn-based ethanol as the renewable fuels
> fix. Over the long haul, corn-base ethanol and various other biofood-
> fuels have brought about a problem that makes an even greater struggle
> necessary.
Exactly. The right wing has been trying to figure out a way to decrease
farm subsidies without losing the ag vote for decades. Now they have it.
>
> Worldwide investment in biofuels will reach a massive $100 billion by
> 2010. Investors like GE, George Soros, Ford, BP, Shell, cargill and
> others like the Caryle Group, have a big stake in corn-processed
> ethanol. So it’s not just big agribusiness doing all the lobbying and
> making all the money. The big players have 'replicated' a biofuel
> explosion around the world.
>
> John McCain early on was an outspoken opponent and critic of ethanol.
> He turned around in 2006 by pandering to corn-based ethanol lobbyist
> in Wa****ngton, and McCain went on to urges Bush to waive ethanol
> rules. Likewise, members of Congress love corn-processed agrifuels.
> Over the past year, Hillary Rodham Clinton has warmed to ethanol. In
> May 2008, Clinton said current ethanol production is "a long way from
> helping us deal with our gas problems," adding, "We need to be moving
> on a much faster track." In 2005 Clinton opposed a vehicle fuel-
> efficiency standards, while Barack Obama -- as a senator from a corn-
> growing state -- backed it. Clinton voted against the energy bill
> itself because it was stuffed with oil industry incentives. But Obama
> sup****ted the legislation because it included language that would
> double ethanol demand by 2012.
>
> Corn-based ethanol barely scratches the surface to reduce America’s
> dependence on foreign oil. The mounting concern of some politicians is
> that biofood-fuels are threatening the nation’s status as the leading
> corn ex****ter. This means consumers would end up paying more at the
> supermarket, and the price of fuel climbing even higher. The ethanol
> lobby is very worried about public opinion, they're greasing the
> wheels of Congress and commerce to obscure all the negative
> consequences and keep front stage, the myth associated with biofood-
> fuels.
Ethanol is not the problem. Using foodstuffs for ethanol to save the
republican vote while ignoring efforts to move to non-edible feedstocks is
the problem.
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