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    Blame Gore!

    Posted on April 25, 2008 | Filed Under In My Opinion... 

    Okay - I predicted this, had some verification of my posits veracity a few weeks ago in another article I posted here, and now the chickens have come home to roost. Food prices are out of control. Shortages exist and are getting to the point where rationing … RATIONING! … is being discussed for the first time in this country since World War II. And the cause? Talk to Al Gore and his buddies in the “Global Warming” scam.

    Food Crisis Starts Eclipsing Climate Change Worries

    Gore Ducks, as a Backlash Builds Against Biofuels

    By JOSH GERSTEIN
    Staff Reporter of the Sun
    April 25, 2008

    The campaign against climate change could be set back by the global food crisis, as foreign populations turn against measures to use foodstuffs as substitutes for fossil fuels.

    With prices for rice, wheat, and corn soaring, food-related unrest has broken out in places such as Haiti, Indonesia, and Afghanistan. Several countries have blocked the export of grain. There is even talk that governments could fall if they cannot bring food costs down.

    One factor being blamed for the price hikes is the use of government subsidies to promote the use of corn for ethanol production. An estimated 30% of America’s corn crop now goes to fuel, not food.

    “I don’t think anybody knows precisely how much ethanol contributes to the run-up in food prices, but the contribution is clearly substantial,” a professor of applied economics and law at the University of Minnesota, C. Ford Runge, said. A study by a Washington think tank, the International Food Policy Research Institute, indicated that between a quarter and a third of the recent hike in commodities prices is attributable to biofuels.

    Last year, Mr. Runge and a colleague, Benjamin Senauer, wrote an article in Foreign Affairs, “How Biofuels Could Starve the Poor.”

    “We were criticized for being alarmist at the time,” Mr. Runge said. “I think our views, looking back a year, were probably too conservative.”

    Ethanol was initially promoted as a vehicle for America to cut back on foreign oil. In recent years, biofuels have also been touted as a way to fight climate change, but the food crisis does not augur well for ethanol’s prospects.

    “It takes around 400 pounds of corn to make 25 gallons of ethanol,” Mr. Senauer, also an applied economics professor at Minnesota, said. “It’s not going to be a very good diet but that’s roughly enough to keep an adult person alive for a year.”  Continue…

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