alt.energy.renewable

On Mar 22, 4:56=A0pm, "no surrender" wrote:
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> > NEWS - "Egyptian government urges end to biofuel subsidies"
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> > "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."
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> >http://www.checkbiotech.org/green_News_Biofuels.aspx?infoId=3D17306
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> > Parallels - Biofuels and Mao's "Great Leap Forward"
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> > An essential economic 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! =A0Higher oil
> > prices naturally raise the cost of everything that takes energy to
> > produce, but in addition to 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.
> > President 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.
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> > 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.
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> > Chairman Mao Tse Tung banned private farms in 1958 in his shift to
> > communes and greater industrial output at the expense of agriculture.
> > 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 supply
> > security. =A0Mao's top-down meddling in agricultural production was
> > compounded by droughts and storms, just as Bush's top-down meddling in
> > 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.
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> > MORE FACTS ABOUT BIOFUELS -
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> http://home.att.net/~meditation/bio-fuel-hoax.html
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> > Christopher Calder
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> I disapprove of likening President Bush to Mousie Dung, but do agree using=

> crop grains as biofuels is unwise; there is other vegetation that may be
> suitable. Beyond that, the whole rationale for biofuels is flimsy.
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> Dennis
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