"jim" wrote in message
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Steve Lusardi wrote:

Worst of all, ethanol use as fuels raises the price of corn and other
grains across the market place denying food to the poor across the world.

Hogwash.

The US ethanol boom is the best thing that has happened to the poor acoss
the world. The fact is, that the vast majority of the
Worlds poor live in 3rd world rural economies. And do you know what the
vast majority of the poor do for a living? They grow grain.
And for the last 60 they have been turned into "the poor across the world"
because of US predatory Ag policies that has destroyed
their livelihood. Even India and China which today have booming economies,
the majority of the citizens still live on farms and
still grow grain for a living. The current rising world grain prices
represent the first opportunity since WWII for millions of the
worlds citizens to raise themselves out subsistence poverty.

It's not as if anything good has been done with corn in the past. What
isn't used as part of a foreign policy to prop up 3rd world
dictatorships and destroy the livelihood of the millions who are living in
rural economies is used mostly to produce vast
quantities of animal fat in cows, pigs and chickens. I mean look around
The US population is suffering from an epidemic of obesity,
heart desease and diabetes. There are millions of tons of corn sweetners
peddled to US children in schools. That is the status-quo.
And yes ethanol is a very definite threat to that status-quo, but you have
to be a pervert with a twisted sense of morality to
think that people should be morally outraged by that.

-jim




I think you may want to do a little more research jim. You will also find
that old growth virgin forests are also being cleared to grow palms for oil.
The harm done in clearing is way more than the "good" done by using the
"renewable" fuel.