Alternative Food Shortages

There was an interesting article about the secretary of state admitting that biofuels are contributing to the rising price of food items. It an be read in its entirety here.


Whats going on with the rising cost of food is people thinking ethanol is a viable source of alternative energy. If corn is going to keep shooting up in price because its worth more in gas tanks than people's stomachs then more farmers are going to switch to growing it instead of wheat and other major food items. I don't have backed up sources but I have heard that an entire year's supply of corn for 1 person will fill up 1 gas tank. I have also heard that although ethanol is cheaper you get worse gas mileage using it thus you have to fill up more. Again I'm not 100% certain on those two things but I am certain on the negative environmental impact the increased growing of corn will have in the Gulf of Mexico around the mouth of the Mississippi river. Its not the path we should be following and we are wasting time and valuable money even considering it. I don't know what the solution is but I am a supporter of electric vehicles. If we could actually put some real money behind development of electric vehicles then we will be good to go.

The oil prices are totally a scam and the reason your government isn't doing anything about it is because they are all lining their pockets off the increasing prices of oil. Just today I saw a story about a senator who was pleading with Washington to form an investigative committee to look into oil price fraud. Just the fact that we have to plead with our government just to LOOK INTO this is indicative to massive greed and corruption. Again at this point I still don't know if people even have any say in anything that occurs in our government anymore.