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Biofuels the source of world food crisis: leaked report
Stephen C. Webster
Raw Story
Friday, July 4, 2008
The United States Government’s Agriculture department recently claimed that the production of biofuels, or plant-based gas for use in combustion engines, has contributed a mere 3 percent to the growing cost of food worldwide. However, a leaked report from the World Bank, detailed in a new report by the UK’s The Guardian, claims that these same fuels are at the root of nearly 75 percent of increases in world food prices.
It is believed, say the story’s sources, that the report has been complete since April 2008, though not published so as to avoid embarrassing President George W. Bush.
“Political leaders seem intent on suppressing and ignoring the strong evidence that biofuels are a major factor in recent food price rises,” said Robert Bailey, policy adviser at Oxfam, as quoted by The Guardian. “It is imperative that we have the full picture. While politicians concentrate on keeping industry lobbies happy, people in poor countries cannot afford enough to eat.”
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The World Bank’s report estimates that rising food costs have pushed nearly 100 million people worldwide below the poverty line. The report also states that even massive droughts in Africa have had less of an effect on food prices than the US and Europe’s push for biofuel supplies.
Additionally, the World Bank estimates a full third of corn produced in the US is being dedicated to the production of biofuels, as well as nearly half of Europe’s vegetable oil. However, biofuels derived from food products such as sugarcane, the report says, do not have nearly as much impact.
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July 4th, 2008 at 6:55 am
right.
exactly why it is such a positive thing the way that Water4Gas is taking off but it is not fast enough.
it is not just about improving MPG markedly.
it isn’t even the fact that we have evidence of it dropping carbon emissions down to zero
and the fact that it makes your car engine purr like a kitten is also secondary
the main thing is that every car and truck and suv in the country can be converted for less than $200 and it would drop our dependency on Big Oil overnight.
this would save lives and revolutionize America, stop the wars and boom the economy!
Go now to http://doeswater4gaswork.info
July 4th, 2008 at 7:11 am
Misleading advertising, Garko. The water is not fuel, it is a source for Brown’s gas, i.e., monatomic hydrogen/oxygen mix, which costs more in electrical energy to produce than is recovered via combustion. The advantage is realized in that small amounts of Brown’s gas catalyse the combustion of conventional fuel, and a larger amount of Brown’s gas will allow a reciprocating (piston driven) internal combustion engine to burn a wide variety of fuels, including turpenes, which can be produced via destructive distillation of biomass such as fallen tree leaves. The process is otherwise known as pyrolytic conversion, which is simply roasting the biomass in the absense of air, driving off the fumes, and condensing. Turpenes are similar to paint thinner, and will combust just fine in a Brown’s gas enhanced combustion engine.
When you over-simplify, Garko, you give ammo to the “debunkers”, who, of course, tend to spread bunk. The devil is always in the details.
Pete
July 4th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Google Charles Pogue.
July 4th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
I think that messing around with food prices is the single biggest act of genocide in the new 21st century. Countries should not have the right to conduct such unfair policies.