Green Poverty

[DFW5Traveler]

It appears that the anti-greens have been right for a long time and we've been getting lip service from the left AND right pushing green biofuels. Pushing biofuels using food crops is CAUSING poverty in locations all over the world and pushing the impoverished even lower.

Article Quote:

This year, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization reported that its index of food prices was the highest in its more than 20 years of existence. Prices rose 15 percent from October to January alone, potentially “throwing an additional 44 million people in low- and middle-income countries into poverty,” the World Bank said.

Soaring food prices have caused riots or contributed to political turmoil in a host of poor countries in recent months, including Algeria, Egypt and Bangladesh, where palm oil, a common biofuel ingredient, provides crucial nutrition to a desperately poor populace. During the second half of 2010, the price of corn rose steeply — 73 percent in the United States — an increase that the United Nations World Food Program attributed in part to the greater use of American corn for bioethanol.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/07/sc...a.html?_r=2&hp

[Rudyard K]

Originally Posted by DFW5Traveler

It appears that the anti-greens have been right for a long time and we've been getting lip service from the left AND right pushing green biofuels. Pushing biofuels using food crops is CAUSING poverty in locations all over the world and pushing the impoverished even lower.

Yeah, but at least we've cleaned the air by 1/1,000,000th of 1%.

[gnadfly]

Let them ride unicorns!

[Chainsaw Anthropologist]

Here's a link to just one article regarding the idiocy of ethanol usage as a motor fuel. It opens with a quote from Al Gore doing major backtracking on his previous position regarding ethanol usage.

http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyl...221_927461.htm

If that isn't enough to entertain you, check out the links on this page for even more on ethanol and other related topics.

http://www.insideautomotive.com/bizweek-columns.htm





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