alt.energy.renewable

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> NEWS - "Egyptian government urges end to biofuel subsidies"
>
> "The U.S. and Europe should stop encouraging the growth of maize and
> other crops for the production of biofuels, a practice that is pushing
> up food prices and hitting the world's poorest people, Egyptian
> Minister of Investment Mahmoud Mohieldin said Wednesday."
>
> http://www.checkbiotech.org/green_News_Biofuels.aspx?infoId=17306
>
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Why should we feed the Egyptians? After all we need the grain to make
ETHANOL! Screw the Egyptians, let them make their own ethanol or eat the
damn stuff if that's what they want. Why is it our worry if they have no
desire what so ever to get their population under control. For over 5,000
years Egyptian civilization has flourished in the Nile basin and they have
prospered growing their own food and grain. Now all of a sudden they don't
like what we do with our grain. Is that a joke? Maybe they should look
inward to find ways to feed themselves. After all they are blessed with one
of the best growing regions in all of the Arab world. They need to manage
their population and match it to the available resources and quit looking to
the western world for a bail out.

The real problem is not ethanol but the value of the dollar and resulting
energy prices. Because of the cheap dollar there is a very large demand for
American grain world wide and exports are way up. There was more corn
shipped to China alone than was converted to ethanol last year. Newly rich
China pays the freight, Egypt doesn't. China is where your grain is going,
lets look to the real problems not the imagined ones.