100 Million people starving: Al Gore’s Biofuel boom forces global food prices up 75%
A ’secret report’, an unpublished assessment by an ‘internationally-respected economist’ at the World Bank (uncovered and reported by The Guardian) will give world leaders painful evidence that the Biofuels campaign (ethanol and other ‘food-based’ biofuels) are starving the world’s poorest citizens…
The figure emphatically contradicts the US government’s claims that plant-derived fuels contribute less than 3% to food-price rises. It will add to pressure on governments in Washington and across Europe, which have turned to plant-derived fuels to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and reduce their dependence on imported oil.Senior development sources believe the report, completed in April, has not been published to avoid embarrassing President George Bush.
“It would put the World Bank in a political hot-spot with the White House,” said one yesterday
If George Bush is embarrassed, then Al Gore should be mortified. This is his baby: global warming (sorry, climate change) is one of the driving forces behind the biofuel industry.
“Rising food prices have pushed 100m people worldwide below the poverty line, estimates the World Bank, and have sparked riots from Bangladesh to Egypt. Government ministers here have described higher food and fuel prices as “the first real economic crisis of globalisation”.”
The first global economic crisis? Yes, but nuclear proliferation is the first, original globalization crisis I think; that and the threats of international terrorism. Oh, and let’s not forget this big petri dish we live in is the ideal strata for some rogue biological epidemics. But that’s future crisis.
President Bush pushed the biofuels agenda, but Al Gore wanted this program, even though he knew this would happen. From his May 2007 speech in Buenos Aries…
”Every potential solution much be handled carefully and the danger with biofuels is that extremely valuable forests will be destroyed unnecessarily,” said Gore, whose global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth won an Academy Award this year. “Another danger is that, if it is not pursued carefully, it will drive food prices up.”
Handled carefully, Al? With you waving the red flag every chance you get — ‘the sky is burning! the earth has a temperature!’– it’s no wonder you scared our government and other nations into fast tracking the biofuels industry. And, as usual, you put the rain forests ahead in your considerations; starving humans are almost an afterthought.
Misanthrope, dictionary, Al Gore’s photo. He probably prays for some sort of global catastrophe that would wipe out us pesky humans, so his planet can get some relief (well, pray isn’t exactly right; since Al Gore thinks there is no God. He probably prays to himself.)
In the future, if Al Gore ever says ‘maybe we should be a ‘little careful’ about this or that then people should slam on the brakes immediately.
And, thanks, Big Al, for that tie-breaking vote you made in 1998 to save the ethanol tax exemption…here’s his braggadocio speechifying…
“I was also proud to stand up for the ethanol tax exemption when it was under attack in the Congress — at one point, supplying a tie-breaking vote in the Senate to save it. The more we can make this home-grown fuel a successful, widely-used product, the better-off our farmers and our environment will be.”
That’s an inconvenient truth.
Maybe we should think ahead before we embark on any projects Mr. Albert Gore suggests and supports. Because instead of 100 million starving people, we might have a nation of 300 million bankrupt people caught in the worst depression evah, based on Mr. Gore’s over reactioned responses to unproven human-caused ‘global warmalism’.
h/t Karl at PW
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It isn’t genocide if you care for the Planet. Be honest, people are a cancer on Mother Earth.
Of course not. People were put here, made in God’s image, and as such can basically assume the role of God until he shows his face. If we happen to fuck to things up, that’s a good thing because things have to get really fucked up before Jeebus will show his face again, just like the cavalry riding over the hill at the last minute, except he’ll be riding out of the sky.
Your friend on the Pale Horse says hi.
You are a real piece of work. You present as evidence that the ethanol mandate is Gore’s fault a speech where he warns of the dangers of biofuels. This has been caused by politicians in both parties (and Europe, I believe) and agribusiness. It has been pushed in part out of concern for energy independence, which is as bogus as using corn ethanol to combat global warming. If you must blame one politician, it would be George Bush, who has signed two ethanol mandate laws–one when Republicans were in power, and one with Democrats in charge.
I have to agree with Clark. The Ehtanol Stupidity has been embraced by both parties. I think you’ll find McCain and Obama still have ethanol boners, too.
But can you blame them? The idea of America growing its own fuel is almost too good to pass up, and you can see the dollar signs in their eyes when it’s mentioned. It’s like telling a rock to deny it’s a rock.
Ethanol’s purposes as a fuel additive are 1) to allay global warming concerns and 2) reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Al Gore beats the drum for the hoax of human-caused Global Warming. He’s done a fairly good job of that, convincing even President Bush (and John McCain) to get on the bandwagon. But, admit this, Al Gore led that parade.
Look at the speech quoted above, given in 1998, where Al Gore bragged about breaking a tie vote while VP to help save ethanol from extinction. Al saved ethanol while VP, or it would’ve been shot down in the Senate. Nope, I guess that means he didn’t have much to do with it, huh?
The only reason he half-heartedly mumbled a ‘warning’ was this letter from the World Rainforest Movement, where they urged Gore (before his speech in Buenos Aries) to back off his ethanol stance…
Also in that letter, concerns about foods costs…
Al Gore is the go-to guy for ethanol. It’s his baby. So don’t try to minimize his impact, when the ethanol train nears derailment.
Al Gore has fattened up on pushing biofuels and global warming while people are beginning to starve, because of his environmental extremism.
Serr8d:
Please explain to me again how you’re any different from, say, a Young Earth Creationist, or a flat Earth advocate. You repeatedly claim man-made global warming is a “hoax,” but your “evidence” to back up this assertion is laughable. The best you can do is string together a bunch of crap from some know-nothing political hacks, and a few unscrupulous scientists on the take from the energy lobby. Meanwhile, the topic has been debated for over two decades, the case has only gotten stronger, and the number of credible deniers has dwindled.
But hey, it’s politically inconvenient for you, so who cares what scientists think?
Al Gore is the go-to guy for ethanol. It’s his baby.
This, at least, has a kernel (bad pun intended) of truth. Gore was indeed an ethanol supporter in the late 1990’s, but his support has since cooled dramatically. In recent years, he has only really advocated for cellulosic ethanol, which uses the non-edible parts of plants, and as such won’t impact food prices.
Oh, and on the main topic at hand, ethanol is only part of the problem. The bigger fish, in the grand scheme of things, is increasing food demand driven by booming markets in India and China.
tgrish: In the face of evidence that the Global Warming has, ummm, stopped.
In the face of evidence that similar warming trends are noted on Mars and Jupiter, with no evvvil SUV’s or humans. Coincidentally, there’s a lull in sunspot activity precisely aligned with the current ‘cooling’ trend.
In the face of Scientists in the pocketses (and under the political sway) of those Al Gore warmalists (who have made such a commitment to this hoax that they have given up the first commandment of Science: KEEP AN OPEN MIND DAMNIT. Open mind? How can they do that when their leader proclaimed ‘the debate is OVER?”
No, tgrish, I see the warming. I feel the heat. But, is that a bad thing? Is this going to go ‘out of control’ and sear us off the face of the planet? What if it does? There is one constant in the world: Change.
The planet will survive. Species will come and go. Meh.
The ideas from these who say man is responsible for Global Warming are as preposterous and dangerous as any from ‘our side’. Only more so: their (your) ideas can destroy our economy (if they haven’t already). And, the added benefit of starving people…
How is that corn based ethanol working for you?
Have we learned yet that hippies are idiots?