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2008-04-26 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Global Food Alert: Gore Ducks, as a Backlash Builds Against Biofuels

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-04-26 02:45|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 Last year, Mr. Runge and a colleague, Benjamin Senauer, wrote an article in Foreign Affairs, How Biofuels Could Starve the Poor.

Which should have been called, "How Biofuels Subsidies Could Starve the Poor".

Posted by Excalibur 2008-04-26 06:21|| 2008-04-26 06:21|| Front Page Top

#2 AlGore's next move will involve a duel in Weehauken.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-04-26 08:23|| 2008-04-26 08:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Nimble - He's been a second before, several times in fact.

Posted by Harcourt Jush7795 2008-04-26 11:47|| 2008-04-26 11:47|| Front Page Top

#4 We had a local TV station interview a local oriental restaurant owner, he stated "Yes the price of rice has gone up seventy-five cents per fifty-pound bag"

I do NOT call that a "Huge Price Increase", do you?

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-04-26 14:08|| 2008-04-26 14:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Biofuels aren't nessecarily a bad idea. But the idea of using a food crop to make them IMO is. If cellulose ethanol comes on line it should be more efficent as it would have greater amounts of feedstock per ton. The process using algae feeding of of the waste CO2 from power plants should be better yet provided it works on an industrial scale. Better yet I am waiting to find out just what the results of Los Alamos's latest Wiffle Ball design.

Posted by Cheadrehead 2008-04-26 15:09|| 2008-04-26 15:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Gore is USELESS, but boy is he rich now.

Wait to see what awaits him.

Dare him snub at me.

Posted by newc">newc 2008-04-26 17:07|| 2008-04-26 17:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Would it be a surprise to find that Al was in on the founding of the the Solyent Corporation?

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-04-26 20:33|| 2008-04-26 20:33|| Front Page Top

#8 Maybe not Al but all bets are off on Ted Turner

Posted by Cheadrehead 2008-04-26 23:32|| 2008-04-26 23:32|| Front Page Top

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