alt.energy.renewable

calderhome@yahoo.com wrote:
> Poor Haitians are now eating mud because of heartless American biofuel
> mandates!

What a troll.

> Food prices around the world have spiked because of higher oil prices,
> needed for fertilizer, irrigation and transportation.
...
> The problem is particularly dire in the Caribbean, where island
> nations depend on imports and food prices are up 40 percent in places.
>
> The global price hikes, together with floods and crop damage from the
> 2007 hurricane season, prompted the U.N. Food and Agriculture Agency
> to declare states of emergency in Haiti
...
> About 80 percent of people in Haiti live on
> less than $2 a day and a tiny elite controls the economy.

So it's the evil Americans and not the high oil prices, hurricanes,
lack of agriculture and the horribly corrupt tiny elite in control
of the economy. Maybe something should be done about the real cause
of their problems?

Anthony