Enviromental Groups cause world wide food shortage
By bobmnu
@bobmnu (8157)
United States
April 28, 2008 1:36am CST
As environmental groups are forcing us to use Bio Fuel and substitute food for fuel we are now faced with a food shortage and an energy shortage. When are our politicians going to wake up and realize that they are creating a world situtation that will soon get out of hand and it is all man made by the enviornmentalist. Speaker Pelosi said that she had an energy plan to reduce the cost of energy. Where is it?
We now hear that India and China are not going to export Rice. IN the US Large foor chains are limiting the amount of rice you can buy. There are reports that farmers anr not gorwing wheat but rather are growing Corn. Ethanol Plants are worried because there is not enough corn to produce the Ethanol the Government is requiring. Environmnetal groups are going to court to block Ethanol Plants because they are using too much water and are using Oil and Coal to produce Ethanol.
Congress save the world and repeal the Ethanol Mandates now.
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@redyellowblackdog (10629)
• United States
28 Apr 08
The Bio Fuel / ethanol fiasco is all a part of a larger dysfunction in our political system. Another example would be the low energy use 'green' replacement light blubs.
What is this dysfunction?
Corporations and trade groups put law makers in their pockets and then have these crooks pass laws to the determent of we citizens while telling us those laws are actually good for us. Bio Fuel and the new light blubs are but 2 examples. There are many more.
The problem is that the alliance of manufacturers and crooked politicians creating laws to circumvent normal competition in the market place (what this is about really) is being quite successful in getting people to believe their lies. They even verbally abuse those who point out the truth.
The most egregious example of attacking truth tellers would be Al Gore trying to sell his carbon credit scam and calling the truth tellers the same as "Holocaust deniers". Egads, what a scmuck! The man now does not even allow reporters in to his talks. He does not dare. He no longer can effectively defend his position from intelligent inquiry.
Let's sum up with a point by point analysis of the dysfunction currently operating that gives us crap like mandated Bio Fuels.
1) In a normal free market economy (without dysfunction) competition insures manufacturers do not make exessive profits and consumers pay fair prices.
2) All manufacturers naturally desire to circumvent the free market competitive process in order to make much more money at the expense of consumers.
3) Buying politicians to pass laws benefiting special interests of certain manufacturers while simutanously publishing and promoting specious arguements in favor of those laws has become the favorite method of circumventing the normal processes of free markets and competition.
4) The solution is merely to elect politicians who understand the best way to serve their constitutents is to insure the unfettered operation of free markets and competition.
It seems pretty simple when you put it like that!
@bobmnu (8157)
• United States
28 Apr 08
Thanks for the great remarks. The only thing I would add is that we the people still have the final say in two respects. We do not have to buy the product and we are the one who elect the politicians, not big business. If they don't do what we want vote them out of office.
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@redyellowblackdog (10629)
• United States
28 Apr 08
Exactly right, Bobmnu.
We the voters, have not been doing our job properly. Hence, our elected leaders treat us with contempt.
