Al Gore, winner of the  Nobel Peace Prize, Oscar winner, High Priest of Global Warming, confidant of the IPCC, burner of copious amounts of jet feul in private jets and owner of a huge energy inefficent home.  And chief spokesman of the Kyoto accords which even his boss knew better than to submit to the Senate for ratification.

Al Gore, and others push for lowering our CO₂ "footprint" and increasing the use of bio-fuels to help with that process.  Bio-fuels, those fuels made from the distillation of bio-mass.  Any bio mass will do, but some of the best is from grains.  Including corn, wheat, rice etc. 

Do you remember the movie Soylent Green, or perhaps No Blade of Grass? Eco thrillers about what happens when population becomes too big, food becomes too scarce.  Of course that was science fiction, and everyone knows that science fiction doesn't become fact.  But the reality is, that the greenies, by deliberately pushing bio-fuels have invoked the law of unintended consequences.  People are starving because what could have been food, is being used to produce bio-mass to produce bio-fuels to allow users of fuels another period of time (A day?  A week?  A year?) where they won't have to make the hard choices of a sensible energy policy. 

Instead the demand for bio-fuels is growing and in the long run, people will die becuase of the short-sighted program.  Glenn Reynolds the Instapundit states:  "BIOFUELS ARE NOW officially evil." but some of us have been saying that for some time.  The link above is to an article in The Guardian and the article states rather clearly: 

It doesn't get madder than this. Swaziland is in the grip of a famine and receiving emergency food aid. Forty per cent of its people are facing acute food shortages. So what has the government decided to export? Biofuel made from one of its staple crops, cassava. The government has allocated several thousand hectares of farmland to ethanol production in the district of Lavumisa, which happens to be the place worst hit by drought. It would surely be quicker and more humane to refine the Swazi people and put them in our tanks. Doubtless a team of development consultants is already doing the sums. [emphasis added]

Those wishing to play politically correct games with the lives of people should be ashamed: 

"Last March, President Bush and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva signed an agreement committing their countries to boosting ethanol production. They said increasing use of alternative fuels would lead to more jobs, a cleaner environment and greater independence from the whims of the oil market.

Ziegler called their motives legitimate, but said that "the effect of transforming hundreds and hundreds of thousands of tons of maize, of wheat, of beans, of palm oil, into agricultural fuel is absolutely catastrophic for the hungry people."

The world price of wheat doubled in one year and the price of corn quadrupled, leaving poor countries, especially in Africa, unable to pay for the imported food needed to feed their people, he said. And poor people in those countries are unable to pay the soaring prices for the food that does come in, he added."

So, the next time you fill up with e-85 or feel strongly about the non-issue of global warming, think about that child in Africa, and demand a rational energy policy from the Democrats in Washington and the President making kissy face with Brazil. 

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