Food crisis forcing Gore to back away from biofuels?
Starving the poor to reduce greenhouse gas emmissions?
NYSun: The campaign against climate change could be set back by the global food crisis, as foreign populations turn against measures to use foodstuffs as substitutes for fossil fuels…One factor being blamed for the price hikes is the use of government subsidies to promote the use of corn for ethanol production. An estimated 30% of America’s corn crop now goes to fuel, not food.
Ethanol was initially promoted as a vehicle for America to cut back on foreign oil. In recent years, biofuels have also been touted as a way to fight climate change, but the food crisis does not augur well for ethanol’s prospects. “It takes around 400 pounds of corn to make 25 gallons of ethanol,” Mr. Senauer, also an applied economics professor at Minnesota, said. “It’s not going to be a very good diet but that’s roughly enough to keep an adult person alive for a year.”
Mr. Senauer said climate change advocates, such as Vice President Gore, need to distance themselves from ethanol to avoid tarnishing the effort against global warming. “Crop-based biofuels are not part of the solution. They, in fact, add to the problem. Whether Al Gore has caught up with that, somebody ought to ask him,” the professor said. “There are lots of solutions, real solutions to climate change. We need to get to those.”
However, the scientist who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Mr. Gore, Rajendra Pachauri of the United Nations’s Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change, has warned that climate campaigners are unwise to promote biofuels in a way that risks food supplies.
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Another liberal mugged by reality.
Wonder if it will force the fatass to back away from the buffet?
Bart
Both parties are pushing this lobbyist driven energy plan that hurts tax payers.
You’re a real stealth Republican Joe.
From the Bush’s energy plan…
“The Renewable Fuels Mandate will increase the use of renewable fuels by 500 percent – requiring fuel producers to supply at least 36 billion gallons of renewable fuel in the year 2022.”
John,
The subject of this thread is fatass AlGore, not the bonehead moves of both parties.
Do you think AlGore should meet Jenny Craig…or continue his assault on every buffet he crosses?
Gore is helping the food industry!
No, he is depriving all those poverty stricken chilren of their daily sustenance.
Bart…….
Priceless!
True Republican humor rears its ugly head… fat jokes.
I heard the founder of Wikipedia talking on a youtube clip.
He said that America really isn’t divided by the right and the left.
It is divived by the “thoughtful” and by the “jerks”. Both parties have representation in these two groups.
Hey Cap,
I never signed on to Bush’s nonsense plan. On my website I call for increased nuclear energy to produce electricity, and I think we should drill in Alaska, offshore, and in Crawford, texas for that matter.
Oh, we’ll be drilling up here in Alaska soon enough, although there’s not a lot of oil in ANWR. Maybe the Chukchi Sea holds a gigafield. Doesn’t really matter.
We still have capacity bottlenecks in our refining and distribution infrastructure. Never mind that roughly 80% of current global oil infrastructure is in serious need of maintenance (hundreds of billions of $$$). The oil distribution infrastructure is steel. Steel rusts. Much of the infrastructure is decades old. We had our taste of this earlier in the year. BP has a horrible maintenance record.
The fact that they aren’t re-investing in their existing infrastructure should be setting off alarms. They know that there isn’t that much crude left in their existing fields. Maintenance investment doesn’t pass their internal rate of return threshold. It’s cheaper to pay the fines when the oil leaks.
Joe, you need to be advocating for increased small-scale farming. Localization is the name of the game in the coming decades. Transporting food thousands of miles won’t be an option when oil hits $200/barrel.
Our food supply is petroleum-dependent. We are a petroleum-importing nation. Can you see the problem here?
OK, screw conservation.
Putting food into SUVs is simply immoral.
David
It is your guy Gore!
Cap,
You are correct that localization is the way to go for the future. It is being done in various places I’ve read about, but we still need to stop the internationalists at the federal level or we will lose everything to their socialist agenda.