It WASN'T enough that we were burning all the oil...

[Tyler Durden]

Killing off the whole GOD DAMNED PLANET with our filth to power CARS for crying out loud, but SWEET SUFFERING JESUS...we are already affecting the world market for food by putting our FOOD in our gas tanks, and now the Chimp In Charge wants 30 some Billion Gallons of ethanol used.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/17/europe/food.php

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Diouf blamed a confluence of recent supply and demand factors for the crisis, and he predicted that those factors were here to stay. On the supply side, these include the early effects of global warming, which has decreased crop yields in some crucial places, and a shift away from farming for human consumption toward crops for biofuels and cattle feed. Demand for grain is increasing with the world population, and more is diverted to feed cattle as the population of upwardly mobile meat-eaters grows.

"We're concerned that we are facing the perfect storm for the world's hungry," said Josette Sheeran, executive director of the World Food Program, in a telephone interview. She said that her agency's food procurement costs had gone up 50 percent in the past 5 years and that some poor people are being "priced out of the food market."

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I TELL YOU THIS, NO ETERNAL REWARD WILL FORGIVE US NOW FOR WASTING THE DAWN.

Jim Morrison.

[glowing]

1. Its one thing for the govt of Brazil to use the leftovers of the sugarcane

to make biofuels.. its a whole other when we take food and use it just for fuel... Stupid, supid, sutpid, stupid..

[AndyTiedye]

5. Can We Make It Out of Garbage? We Got Lotsa Garbage

[glowing]

6. Yes, it may not burn very clean though and the process isn't particularly

smell good.

[Tyler Durden]

9. Not even the point.

We need to stop BURNING things.

We invented FIRE about 250,000 years ago. Can't we invent something BETTER for crying out loud????

[AndyTiedye]

10. Rotting, Spoiled Food is Halfway There Already. Should be Easy to Make Alcohol Out of That

[glowing]

12. There is already heat in rotting---ever see a manure pile burn? Or garbage

catch fire....

[WinkyDink]

2. Capitalism is evil.

[Tyler Durden]

3. That whole article is about SUPPLY and DEMAND:

The Holy Capitalist Market.

We shall be damned in history for this.

[SweetThingy]

4. I'm convinced the world can't handle 6 billion people

Too many republicans.

[Avalux]

7. Shifting from Big Oil to Big Agro - doesn't matter; they still get the profits.

There is no way in hell these bastards will allow the common people access to cheap, renewable, even unlimited fuel. It's the one thing they have to keep us under their thumbs. So they tout ethanol as environmentally friendly, brainwash Americans into thinking it's the best thing since sliced bread, and we're no better off.

[Tyler Durden]

8. EXCEPT....

The Third World gets to starve a little faster.

It's getting to the point were I feel dirty just getting in the damned car.

[hogwyld]

11. I wonder if we can burn Soylent Green in our cars

'Cause at the rate we're going, there are going to be a lot of poor people starving to death. May history have mercy on this pariah nation...

[Tyler Durden]

14. I fear that our children's children will feel shame that they even had ancestors from this place....

And to think, if 2000 hadn't happened, we might have gone down a path of light.

[rucky]

13. Edible cars.

it's the only solution.