Liberals love to throw gasoline (um biofuel) on fires and then duck and run for cover.   Later, when real people have died or been injured, they call on government to create laws to protect folks from the scourge of artificial accelerated fire.   Others point the finger of blame at them and they reply "it wasn't my fault.   The situation is far more complicated and nuanced than that!"

Here's the party line refuting claims that biofuels are to blame for the current world food crisis:

"The people who seek to solely blame ethanol for the food crisis and the rising price of food that we see across the globe are taking a terribly simplistic look at this very complex issue."

College professors are busy calculating the precise impact of biofuels on food prices.   Now they need to get to exact figures so they can gauge precisely how much impact using corn to run cars has.   I need no economic model for my calculations.

According to Wikipedia, the "U.S. Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 requires American fuel producers to use at least 36 billion gallons of biofuel in 2022.   This is nearly a fivefold increase over current levels."   According to one news report I read, it takes enough food to keep a person alive for one year to manufacture 25 gallons of biofuel.   If the US currently produces and uses 7 billion gallons of biofuel per year, that's enough to feed 280 million people.   That's all the math I need.   Sorry if you see the situation as more complicated than I do.   Sorry if my thinking is not nuanced enough for you.

Labels: Biofuels, environmentalism, Ethanol, global warming