The World Health Organization (WHO) and other International and US Federal Agencies are getting concerned about food shortages. Many say that the possible food crisis appears to be caused by the inevitable rise in overall prices from the increased cost of crude oil and fuels. In the US I’m sure much of the rise in oil prices are the result of the rapidly falling dollar on the world markets. Since the world economy is tied to the dollar, a downward spiraling dollar will result in drastically increased prices in the US because it takes more dollars to buy the same product/service than it did prior to the fall.
But the largest concern now that peoples’ and nations’ eyes are being opened is the increase in food products which has been caused by diverting acreage, once devoted to food production, for the production of ethanol and bio-fuels. Twenty percent of the US corn production now goes to ethanol production , and rising corn prices for those dependent on it for food. Mexicans are paying more for corn flour to make tortillas and other foodstuffs. Thank you Mr. Al Gore. Why didn’t he get the Science Nobel Prize if everything he spouts is the Gospel according to Gore instead of the Peace prize. Does he not know that nations have gone to war over food??? When you’re starving, your people just want you to get more food and don’t care how you get it for them.
When cost of oil goes higher still and many people begin to freeze, and can’t pay for heating, what do you think they want the government to do? I am getting very afraid that if we in the US do not wake up and put the environmentalists on the sidelines, we will have astronomical food and oil prices, and people will begin to starve and freeze. We do not need to suffer this. In just Alaska alone, there is enough coal to provide all of our current and future power needs for at least two hundred years.
Forget ethanol and other biofuels until someone can prove that the amount of energy to produce such fuels is equal to or greater than the amount of energy required to produce them! Presently, ethanol is a non-starter in this area.
Get angry people. Force those rascals in Washington D.C. to do the right thing and not the expedient thing to buy votes to keep themselves in power. They are not working for us but only for themselves. Throw them out, now. Start a recall for all offenders who are not doing the will of We the People. That’s who we are We the People not We the Sheeple!
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