Our dysfunctional electoral process is forcing politicians to spend millions of dollars to get elected, making them get in bed with special interests. The real issues take a backseat to payola. We need to figure out how to elect guys who really care about us and the rest of the world and once they are in office let them focus on fixing things instead of digging up more dirty money to get re-elected. Once again, I’m embarrassed to be represented by these kind of people.

Let’s see if any of the media that has been spewing this Food vs. Fuel trash will retract any of it and publish the truth for a change.

I wish the biofuels industry was big enough to affect anything, but right now it is not. Biofuels still take a far back seat to petroleum, weather destroying crops and increased demand for meat. Ethanol used about 12% of the USA corn supply, while almost all of the rest went to feed livestock, not people. Producing meat takes about ten times as much land and resources to than vegetables, fruits and grains for direct consumption. We’ve exported our bad habit of eating meat to China and India and prices are increasing accordingly. If we all cut back on Big Macs food prices would fall.

Biodiesel is mostly made from soy oil in the USA. The oil is about 10% of the bean and is removed in preparing the soy meal for livestock consumption. The oil has no nutritional value and is not even classified as food. Not too long ago soy oil was thrown into land fills as an unwanted byproduct. As we increase the amount of soy oil we use, we increase the amount of meal produced and this increased supply should reduce soy meal prices, not increase them.

None of what I’ve said is a big secret, it’s pretty basic economics. We do not ship our corn and soybeans to the 3rd world, therefore it has little or no bearing on their hunger issue. If the UN and other “experts” really want to resolve world hunger, they wouldn’t fixate on unrelated issues. Not one of these guys has mentioned the increased price of petroleum and its affect on food prices. My simple math leads me to believe that these people are either being paid off or they are drastically under-qualified for the lofty positions they currently hold. Either way, it’s time for a change.

I’m not a big fan of corn ethanol, but this whole food vs. fuel debate is either being spearheaded by idiots or they are on Big Oil’s payroll. Instead of a biofuel moratorium, let’s figure out how to steer the industry away from corn and soybeans toward next generation biofuels like waste-to-fuel, jatropha and algae. The whole reason for starting the biofuel movement was to get rid of surplus food production and increase the value of Ag products (and we thought they were trying to save the planet). Farmers now have a strong, escalating market as China, India and other countries pick up our bad habits, like eating beef.

It’s now time to accelerate the decoupling of biofuels from food. Big Ag is turning out to be almost as bad as Big Oil, but that doesn’t mean that biofuels are bad. We just need to cut back on crazy subsidies and stop letting Big Ag push us around. You don’t need a PhD to figure out that a biofuels moratorium is pure hogwash. Actually, it appears that for some reason having a PhD may cause you to believe this crap.

I’ve seen this kind of anti-Ethanol stamp of disapproval all over the Internet, and it did not originate in the United States.

Can the U.S. Congress at least try to collect data that demonstrates U.S. exports of foods to starving countries have been affected by increased Ethanol production?

It’s kind of like finger pointing, and Democrats do it all the time. Blame the U.S. for a World problem that is not ours. Like Global Warming and the melting Arctic Glaciers and Alaskan environment changes are blamed on the Continental U.S. by Democrats and Liberals. But the scientists in Alaska today are collecting the actual data that is showing sources of Green House gases that originated from China, Russia and other countries outside the USA.

Well …………….?

1. By passing tax incentives, they encouraged The People to take risks and invest THEIR money into enterprises Congress agrued would benefit The People.
2. By taking those incentives away within 5 months of the 2007 Energy Act being signed by the President, sends a chilling message to all those Risk Takers. This does have a negative impact on investors, and even individual farmers.
3. Similarly when in good faith, business sign Long Term Off Shore Lease Agreements with the US Government they expected the Government (their government) would honor the agreement. In January 2007, the Dems immediately began attacking these leases signed during the Clinton Administration. Bye Bye America. Within a month, those Big Oil companies were in China developing their CTL and Power technologies with $125 Billion (U.S.) China put on the table.
4. Again in 2008, these Dems in Congress try to rip the Big Oil Execs for high gas prices. Over and over again. World demand drives up Crude Oil prices, the US is importing Crude Oil. But US Demand is down. The Dems don’t get it! They demand more refineries after Big Oil says refinery capacity hasn’t changed in 20 years. But again the Dems don’t listen. Big Oil says they can’t get the Permits for refineries. Oh, People. Wake up!