| NJ5 said: @Kasz216: Increasing energy costs are not necessarily thing, in fact the earlier they increase the better, to smooth out the bad consequences of the inevitably high prices in the future. Too much energy is wasted today, high prices early can spark conservation. Your other points make sense though. |
That's the thing. We can't afford high prices now due to the global food crisis.
Infact the UN has called on the US and EU to stop there ethanol programs because it's greatly inflating the global prices for food... both by depriving farmland of food and energy costs by certain regulations that a certain amount of ethanol be used.
http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_26616.shtml
Seriously... it's already... just horrible. We need to find a way to get a handle on that before we intentionally inact measures that will make the problem worse. The world food bank is at like half power.
http://www.rttnews.com/Content/PoliticalNews.aspx?Node=B1&Id=1023723
Not to mention everyone is getting more protectionist which hurts farmers that aren't part of the US, EU and China making them able to grow less... the whole thing is just nasty and getting worse but nobody wants to hear about it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/25/AR2008102502293.html
