"The Trucker" <m...@v...net> wrote in message
news:pan.2008.07.06.20.38.06.110776@verizon.net...
> On Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:11:45 -0700, Don Tiberone wrote:
>
>> http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2008/07/i
nsane-us-ethanol-policy.html
>>
>> A World Bank Report suggests Biofuels behind food price hikes.
>>
>> Biofuels have caused world food prices to increase by 75
>> percent,
>> according to the findings of an unpublished World Bank report
>> published in The Guardian newspaper on Friday.
>
> That's horseshit. Food shortages are being caused by worldwide bad
> weather. __**AND**__ biofuels. I will not buy the cause and effect
> any
> other way. And these worldwide increases in biofuel production were
> not
> caused by the USA. Such export intensive or energy intensive
> operations
> have their roots in moves from subsistence farming to cash crop
> farming.
> If it wasn't biofuels that caused this then it would have been
> something
> else like "tulips".

And the shift to more people eating more meat around the world. There
are usually many causes for higher prices. It is baloney that some
try to blame just one thing. There is no blame really. The world
economy has been booming for a few years now. Higher food and fuel
prices were bound to happen as competition for them ramps up.

And you want to ridiculously add EXTRA taxes on top of already higher
prices. Get real. Your Robin Hood scheme doesn't work. The rich
never pay and it always ends up nailing the middle class. We are
tired of that BS.

Fred