The Absurd Report

There is no greater testament to the incompetence of our self-serving criminal class who walk the halls of Congress in Washington than the mandate for the use of biofuel Ethanol. We can thank the Bush Administration for going along with the 2007 Energy Bill fiasco and caving into the global warming alarmists.

The immediate impact of what our criminal class has done with the Ethanol mandate in the 2007 Energy Bill has seen America’s food prices rise dramatically and third world nations suffering food shortages that are leading to starvation.

U.S. corn nets only about 50 gallons worth of gasoline per acre per year, and Americans burn more than 134 billion gallons of gasoline per year. It takes 232kg of corn to fill a 50 liter tank of gas with ethanol. That corn used to fill one car tank with ethanol is enough to feed one child for an entire year.

We were already using virtually all of the country’s cropland to produce food and if we refuse to burn coal, drill for oil, or build nuclear power plants, this is what we must expect: hunger, deprivation, and destruction of the planet’s natural resources.

Over the past two years, corn has soared from $1.86 per bushel to more than $6, and the U.S. spring planting intentions confirm there won’t be enough grain - for people or pigs because the massive land requirements of biofuels made this disaster inevitable—but few thought the disaster would arrive so fast.

What the government and the Bush administration doesn’t want to tell you is that food prices are increasing because of government. Government demanded a five-fold increase in the production of corn-based ethanol fuel in order to appease environmentalists.

AS always the story is the same in Washington, pander to this group for votes and pander to that group for money but they never consider the welfare of the nation as a whole.

Here is a stunning admission of incompetence by Representative Jim McGovern, Democrat of Massachusetts from the New York Times…

“If there was a secret vote, there is a pretty large number of people who would like to reassess what we are doing,” he said.

They made a mistake in not “anticipating” the impact on food prices? They would fix it only in a “secret vote?”

What does it tell us?

This is a classic example of our criminal liberal class complete disregard for the concept of unintended consequences. What did they think would happen when you take land away from food production? The unintended consequences naturally would be rising food prices and only an economic moron wouldn’t realize this.

And then his comment that Congressmen would behave differently if there was a “secret vote” tells us a tale of how totally corrupt these people are because they need to hide behind a ‘secret vote’ to appease the environmentalists.

As Ronald Reagan said, “Government is not the solution, government is the problem.”

Biofueling Poverty

More from NY Sun

Global warming alarmism won’t cool the planet, but it has other effects“

A global food crisis looms, as crops are diverted to biofuels. Food prices have soared 83 percent in three years. Thousands of U.S. farmers are pulling their land out of the government’s biggest conservation program to plant millions of acres back to crops and pasture. U.S. environmentalists warn that ‘years of conservation progress’ will be lost as America’s 35-million-acre Conservation Reserve dwindles, especially in the important bird-nesting areas of the northern Great Plains. “

What’s that got to do with global warming alarmism, you might ask. Avery explains:
“All of this because of the rush to biofuels - the first, big, panicked mistake of the global warming scare. The public was sold on the now obviously foolish idea that it’s better to burn food in our fuel tanks than to feed people and raise livestock from the world’s scarce cropland.”

More here…