Articles to back up reading
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/apr2008/2008-04-28-03.asp
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/business/worldbusiness/15food.html?pagewanted=print
The biofuel increase can be found on Obamas website in his energy platform document.
The arguement is that the current US and EU polcies contribute between 33% and 10% of the current problem.
That would be rather 33 Million are starving because of it or 10 million. Further increases in price are expected if the mandates are kept.
More people will starve even if ethanol subsidies are just kept in place... if they get explosivly increased like Obama wants...
There will be a lot of hunger pains felt around the world. I keep hoping someone would challenge him on it. Yet nobody does, and nobody cares because people here are inconvienced by the economic troubles.
