> [...]
> >> What people *should* be watching is the price of Wheat, Soy Beans e.t.c.
> >> because that is where trouble will come from. In the middle east, India and
> >> Pakistan people are going from being middle class to having to choose
> >> between heating and eating! China has enacted price controls - *ensuring* a
> >> shortage (maybe they will shoot some farmers to get the point across that it
> >> is well to produce at a loss)
>
> >You can thank the biofuel craze for that. Planting for burning drives
> >up food from supply *and* demand sides, plus all the downstream
> >products--and in other countries--too.
>
> >Unintended consequences:
>
> > 1. Al Gore sounds alarm
> > 2. biofuel craze
> > 3. farmers grow feedstock for cars instead of people
>
> >Results:
> > 4. Human misery increased
> > a. inflation, locally
> > b. food becomes unaffordable in Mexico and Haiti
> > c. people starve
>
> > 5. Environment not improved
> > a. replacement food grown, appallingly inefficiently
> > b. net CO2 emissions increase
>
> >Best wishes,
> >James Arthur
>
> So they gave the Nobel Peace Prize to a mass murderer.
>
> John
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Intentions are fine, but one has to consider one's actions carefully. "Activists" sometimes fall a little short in this department.
Cheers, James Arthur