Esmoreit on 26 October 2008
| Kasz216 said: 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. |
Well, you know biofuel is more then just ethanol, right? It's made from palmoil for instance (easily replaced by oliveoil) and
manure.
Secondly, starvation is mostly combated with grains and rice. Neither ricefields nor grainfields are overtly used to produce the components for biofuels and it's doubtfull this will change as the price for both is still higher on the market then governments can subsidize against.
And as always, It'll turn out. Remember, it's not just the US who aids in combating Famine.
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