Bush biofuel plan similar to Mao's "Great Leap Forward" - both lead to starvation!
calde...@yahoo.com
about the world food crisis is that rising oil prices have not shrunk
the human food supply, but biofuel production has! It is quite
different to just raise the price of something than to actually reduce
its supply. Higher oil prices naturally raise the cost of everything
that takes energy to produce, but on top of that United States and
European Union policies have actually shrunk the human food supply by
artificially mandating a shift of agricultural resources to biofuel
production. President Bush's 2007 "Energy Independence and Security
Act" turns our food into fuel, and is reminiscent of Chairman Mao Tse
Tung's 1958 Five Year Plan, known as "The Great Leap Forward," in
which China's agricultural based economy was forcefully shifted to
greater industrial output.
The higher food prices of 2008 cannot easily lead to increased food
production, as would normally be the case, because of Bush's
government mandated shift of land, water, fertilizer, farm equipment,
and manpower resources to biofuel production. With biofuels out of
the equation, farmers could have easily passed higher energy costs on
to consumers without shrinking food production, and they could have
increased food output to meet the greater demands 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.
Chairman Mao Tse Tung banned private agriculture in 1958 in his shift
to communes and industry, which reduced incentives to produce food,
and this led to a 15% drop in grain production in 1959 and another 10%
reduction in 1960. Biofuel production has consumed an estimated 33%
to 38% of America's corn crop, depending of whose statistics you
believe, and has caused many farmers to grow corn to make ethanol
instead of wheat to make bread. Bush's 2007 biofuel mandates have
called for even more of our food to be turned into fuel in the name of
"energy independence," but at the tragic cost of global food
security. Mao's top-down meddling in agricultural production was
compounded by droughts and storms, just as Bush's top-down meddling in
world agriculture has been compounded by a drought in Australia which
reduced wheat production, and a winter storm in China which caused
major crop failures. A convergence of forces turned Mao's well
meaning 1958 plan into the greatest famine in history, and resulted in
the death by starvation of tens of millions of Chinese people. Bush's
well meaning 2007 "Energy Independence and Security Act" may
eventually take even more lives worldwide.
SEE 10 good reasons to oppose biofuels at: http://home.att.net/~meditation/bio-fuel-hoax.html
Christopher Calder
Matt Helm
<calde...@yahoo.com> mumbled:
>SEE 10 good reasons to oppose biofuel
SEE Uneding lunacy from lieberal nitwit.
Lobby Dosser
> 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!
Good!! Earth is overpopulated.
Billy
Lobby Dosser <lobby.dos...@verizon.net> wrote:
Good point. Will you please get off.
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Billy
Impeach Pelosi
Bush & Cheney to the Hague
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