First off, some more statistics that I unearthed which indicate how terrible a fuel source that corn ethanol truly is.
With current commercial technology it takes about 500 pounds of corn to yield 13 gallons of ethanol! What could we do with that corn instead? This much corn would be enough to feed a person for a year. Now let's extrapolate that over the course of a full year, one car. With ethanol derived from corn as the fuel in one car over the course of a full year the average US vehicle would consume a staggering TWENTY SEVEN THOUSAND POUNDS of corn! That equals to enough to feed a small village for a year! THAT's HORRIBLE! So if that village doesn't get that corn then that driver of that car using ethanol, who thinks he is helping the environment and doing something good, can be said to have been responsible for the death of a small village somewhere else in the world
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! The soaring price of oil does make for higher food prices due to transport prices increasing and other consequences but that does not lower the food supply. But now American and European Union policies have actually shrunk the human food supply by artificially mandating a shift of agricultural resources to biofuel production. Lord Bush's 2007 "Energy Independence and Security Act" is currently and will continue to be responsible for the deaths of millions all from one signature on that one document
If farmers were not being forced to grow corn for fuel purposes instead of food then they could have easily passed higher energy costs on to consumers without shrinking food production, and they would also have been able to increase the quantity of food generated to meet increased demand of an expanding world population. Higher prices normally give producers a strong incentive signal to make more of a product so they can make more money. Now those incentive signals are confused and ineffective because of forced government biofuel mandates. Farmers must now produce for the automotive biofuel market as well as for the human food market.
Exactly fifty years ago, Mao in China removed the right to private agriculture in his shift towards communism and left wing corporatism and this led to a 15% drop in grain production in 1959 and another 10% reduction in 1960. Our situation today is worse. Biofuel production has consumed an estimated 33% to 38% of America's corn crop depending on which reports that you consider more accurate . Mao's dictatorial policy and some misfortune turned his 1958 plan into the greatest famine in the history of mankind , and the result was the starvation and death of tens of millions of Chinese . As Woody Allen said in Deconstructing Harry? ?what concerns me is that 6 million Jews were killed in the holocaust? and records are made to be broken. Bush's energy policy may just beat Mao's record .
It is estimated that 10 to 20 MILLION people could die from food shortages caused by biofuel in 2008 alone. So, how many people is that? Most years the total number of people who die from all causes, total number of deaths is between fifty and sixty million people ! An additional 10 to 20 million equates to an increase of 12% to 40% in the total number of deaths. Now that is kind of under the radar. Surely there have been millions of those deaths already because here we are in April. . Now let's compare this to something that is on EVERYBODY's minds since 9/11? terrorism.
Let's review some other stats of death so as to compare. Between six hundred thousand and seven hundred thousand die in America most years from heart conditions of one kind or another . Cancer takes between 450,000 and 600,000 deaths per year .
Over one hundred thousand people die every year from accidents of different kinds . In the year of 9/11, 2001, road fatalities were equal to having a 9/11 occur every 26 days. And how many deaths were there of Americans from terrorist attacks through the decade of the 1990s? They averaged 250 deaths per year which equates to almost one death from terrorist attacks for every 400 deaths from accidents on the road ! And the 100,000 that die from accidents compared to, let's say 15 million dead from artificially induced food shortages? That is a ratio of 1 to 150!
Fifteen million people is equal to four years of sold out crowds at Yankee Stadium for four full years of home games!
My fellow Americans, whom I hardly know anymore have demonstrated their willingness to sacrifice our Constitution, our freedoms, our heart and soul for ?security? against terrorist attacks even though this sacrifice has not resulted in anything but a country moving rapidly towards a police state with no greater security against terrorist attacks whatsoever. So I wonder what Americans will be willing to part with so that tens of millions of impoverished people
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