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Al Gore causing higher grocery costs
Posted By katie allison granju
Middle Tennessee reporter Brian Mosely blogs about ethanol:
Have you ever noticed that every “crisis” has the same solution: A changed or reduced lifestyle for Americans and the West? It always seems that if people get fat, it’s America’s fault due to our lifestyle. If they starve, it’s also our fault.
The only good thing about a global food crisis is the media can finally quit whinning about how obese everyone is.
Now, not all of the world’s starvation is being caused by this biofuel flap. Places like North Korea and Zimbabwe both had starving citizens before this ethanol craziness hit, and yet no one is blaming the corrupt leadership in these countries for their part in this mess. Especially North Korea. I mean, how bad can your country be if you have to escape to China? More times than not, in every instance we send “aid” to these places, all it does is prop up some tinhorn despot who hates our guts and continues to starve their own people, as they arm their own thugs. Crop failures are also a big factor.
But I’m surprised that the foreign ministers of some of these Asian and African countries haven’t indirectly blamed the food shortage and increased prices on Al Gore’s “global warming” hysteria, which many say has lead to us putting food in our fuel tanks. Some are already pointing fingers.
Folks, right now the rain forests in South America are being converted to sugar cane for fuel, our corn resources are now diverted to ethanol even though we have plenty of oil already existing in the ground in a useable form — we don’t have to use our food resources to create fuel.
But we can’t drill because it might upset the habitat of the caribou or the polar bear. Instead, we are using corn to fill our gas tanks while the rest of the world starves.
Something is very, very wrong with this picture.
Apr 18th, 2008
