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Originally Posted by Captain Echidna  I still think its more, Just ask the poor Mexicans who struggle to afford their staple tortillas made from US corn , As the seeding, plouging and harvesting and irrigation, transport equipment all runs of diesel, which price is rapidly increasing. Or Indonesians who cant afford cooking oil , but their government will supply troops to guard and chauffer the haliburton employees around, while the company takes vast wealth in the way of oil and gas out of the country. Not to mention straining land and water supplies for food farming.
Or is the problem that there are people in the world who cant afford food, especially bad as the majority of food production relies on diesel, which is rapidly increasing in cost? |
We still use huge quantities of vegetable food to produce a small quantity of meat food.
We grow more than enough vegetable food to feed the world but we waste huge quantities just to maintain the high price. Then we give dollars as aid rather than giving food and complain about the fact that the dollars don't buy enough because we are maintaining the high price for the sake of profit.
Talking of profit, this is the reason for oil companies putting out this sort of rubbish - to protect their profit from the attack of biofuels.
The Mexicans and Indonesians are not starving because of biofuels. They are starving because of 'western' greed for profit.