alt.energy.renewable

On Mar 4, 4:57=A0pm, "calderh...@yahoo.com"
wrote:
> An essential point that political leaders and the media have missed
> about the world food crisis is that rising oil prices have not shrunk
> the human food supply, but biofuel production has! =A0It is quite
> different to just raise the price of something than to actually reduce
> its supply. =A0Higher oil prices naturally raise the cost of everything
> that takes energy to produce, but on top of that United States and
> European Union policies have actually shrunk the human food supply by
> artificially mandating a shift of agricultural resources to biofuel
> production. =A0President Bush's 2007 "Energy Independence and Security
> Act" turns our food into fuel, and is reminiscent of Chairman Mao Tse
> Tung's 1958 Five Year Plan, known as "The Great Leap Forward," in
> which China's agricultural based economy was forcefully shifted to
> greater industrial output.
>
> The higher food prices of 2008 cannot easily lead to increased food
> production, as would normally be the case, because of Bush's
> government mandated shift of land, water, fertilizer, farm equipment,
> and manpower resources to biofuel production. =A0With biofuels out of
> the equation, farmers could have easily passed higher energy costs on
> to consumers without shrinking food production, and they could have
> increased food output to meet the greater demands of an expanding
> world population. =A0Higher prices normally give producers a strong
> incentive signal to make more of a product so they can make more
> money. =A0Now those incentive signals are confused and ineffective
> because of forced government biofuel mandates. =A0Farmers must now
> produce for the automotive biofuel market as well as for the human
> food market.
>
> Chairman Mao Tse Tung banned private agriculture in 1958 in his shift
> to communes and industry, which reduced incentives to produce food,
> and this led to a 15% drop in grain production in 1959 and another 10%
> reduction in 1960. =A0Biofuel production has consumed an estimated 33%
> to 38% of America's corn crop, depending of whose statistics you
> believe, and has caused many farmers to grow corn to make ethanol
> instead of wheat to make bread. =A0Bush's 2007 biofuel mandates have
> called for even more of our food to be turned into fuel in the name of
> "energy independence," but at the tragic cost of global food
> security. =A0Mao's top-down meddling in agricultural production was
> compounded by droughts and storms, just as Bush's top-down meddling in
> world agriculture has been compounded by a drought in Australia which
> reduced wheat production, and a winter storm in China which caused
> major crop failures. =A0A convergence of forces turned Mao's well
> meaning 1958 plan into the greatest famine in history, and resulted in
> the death by starvation of tens of millions of Chinese people. =A0Bush's
> well meaning 2007 "Energy Independence and Security Act" may
> eventually take even more lives worldwide.
>
> SEE 10 good reasons to oppose biofuels at:http://home.att.net/~meditation/=
bio-fuel-hoax.html
>
> Christopher Calder

Bush wants to create madman. He sits in cave as caveman, neo caveman,
finds peace of mind in the deaths of a few million people and in
creating racism.
1 million died in Iraq so far since 2003 directly related to the Iraq
war, hundreds
of thousands of women and children. His father caused as many as 3
million
deaths from starvations. What Saddam genocidal dictator of a million
deaths?
90 percent of Arabs think negatively of Americans since the Iraq war,
in the
past most Arabs thought positively of Americans. Hitler too found a
peace of
mind in killing a few million people and creating racism on the
planet.
Good night.