Biofuels are causing food price inflation and speeding global warming!

Rapid food price inflation will continue until all biofuel subsidies
and mandates are ended.

Oil price increases have not shrunk the human food supply, but biofuel
production has! The more biofuels we produce, the less food we have
to eat, because we grow biofuel crops, even switchgrass, using the
same land, water, fertilizer, farm equipment, and labor we use to grow
food. The world is running out of wheat because too many wheat
farmers have switched to growing corn for ethanol production. The
USDA states that by May US wheat supplies will be lower than any time
since 1948.

The FAO states global food prices rose 40% in 2007. When America
foolishly turns its food into fuel, we raise food prices worldwide
which gives other countries a financial incentive to burn down
rainforests in order to grow more food. It takes 9,000 gallons of
water to create just 1 gallon of biodiesel, so biofuel production
aggravates water shortages.

The twisted logic of biofuel advocates has been that we should gladly
starve the world today by turning our food into fuel, but in a few
years the world can eat again because we will soon make biofuels out
of easy to grow inedible cellulose crops instead of food. Three
agricultural economists with insider knowledge from Iowa State
University have published a study which states that ethanol made from
cellulose will never be affordable. Federal tax credits would have to
be raised from the current $.51 per gallon for corn ethanol to $1.55
per gallon for cellulosic ethanol. That means no ethanol from
switchgrass, wood chips, or crop waste will ever be sellable.

http://www.card.iastate.edu/publications/DBS/PDFFiles/08wp460.pdf

This comes on top of the recent Princeton University study published
in the journal SCIENCE that concludes that all current and proposed
future biofuels, even switchgrass, are far worse for the environment
and global warming than using ordinary gasoline.

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1151861

Nitrogen fertilizers used to grow anything unleash nitrous oxide, a
greenhouse gas 296 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. Farming
contributes more to global warming each year than all land, sea, and
air transportation combined, so farming should only be used for
essential food production.

The global destruction caused by biofuels makes no sense strategically
because by 2015 it is estimated that oil from shale will cost only $30
a barrel to manufacture, and there is far more oil potential in
American shale than in the entire Middle East before drilling began in
1908.

The "energy independence" argument for biofuels is a hoax because
American biodiesel made out of soybeans costs the equivalent of making
regular diesel out of oil at $232 a barrel. Making ethanol from corn
costs the equivalent of oil at $81. a barrel and uses 28% more fossil
fuels than gasoline.

MORE BIOFUEL FACTS

http://home.att.net/~meditation/bio-fuel-hoax.html

Christopher Calder


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