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2007-07-16 Home Front Economy

Biofuels Good for Global Warming, Bad for Poor

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Posted by Bobby 2007-07-16 06:12|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Just waiting for the environmental wacko to be the first to say - "Let them eat plastic".

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-07-16 09:42|| 2007-07-16 09:42|| Front Page Top

#2 This is the solution we have needed for quite some time. Less available free food means necessarily less overproduction of third world, malcontnets. Recall that food deprivation was wide spread in the first half of the 20th century and served as nature's monitor on population over growth. It wasn't until Uncle Sugar started passing around freebies in massive amounts that the rat population began to explode. Not only that, moving to other fuel sources will rapidaly diminish Saudi income and will reduce their expanionist methods, due to their needing to allocate much more of their income toward food staples. Definitely heading dowm the right path here. And that is seconded by the squawking from the UN beggars.

Posted by Woozle Elmeter2970 2007-07-16 12:40|| 2007-07-16 12:40|| Front Page Top

#3 I find this rather disturbing. Most "solutions" to global warming seem to rely on sticking it to the little guy within the nation state. It doesn't matter that Average Joe American is way far wealthier than Average Juan Mexican: if both are on the same relative rung on the economic ladder, they get screwed equally.

Carbon trading is no help because the poor in the third world countries who supposedly must not develop themselves to provide the carbon offsets for the wealthy will never see the money being offered to help him compensate for his 'sacrifice': it will be intercepted by the rich and the connected aristocrats who, the world over, think themselves as being superior to the average joe in their nation.

Posted by ptah">ptah 2007-07-16 15:18|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2007-07-16 15:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Well we need a cheap reliable source of food grown here in the US of A. High energy costs will make that not possible. We don't want to be importing all our food any more than we want to be importing all our energy. We need cheap supplies of both. That said the best thing we can do for Africa is cut all aid food and otherwise. Time to tell the UN sorry Charlie we are tapped out.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2007-07-16 18:08|| 2007-07-16 18:08|| Front Page Top

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