U.S., EU told to cut back on biofuels
A recent report in Reuters India titled “U.S., EU must cut back on biofuels: U.N. adviser”, reports that “‘The United States and Europe should cut back on production of biofuels because they are hurting food supply at a time of rising prices’, an adviser to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday.”
The author’s article, Ingrid Melander, says that bio-fuels “compete with food for farming land and help to push up food prices, worsening a global crisis that is affecting millions of poor.”
According to Ban Ki-moon’s adviser Jeffrey Sachs, “in the United States as much as one third of maize crop this year will go to gas tank. This is a huge blow to the world food supply.”
Melander writes that “supporters say they are the only renewable alternative to fossil fuels and generally result in lower greenhouse gas emissions.”
The problem with these and similar comments is that they are politically charged and based on faulty reports concerning “Global Warming,” a religious-like movement among the liberal class, including many Democrats.
If education had been a primary focus of the U.N. and other countries who were handing out crates of food to people in under-developed countries, this would not be an issue. If these people were educated in how to grow their own crops and raise livestock for agricultural and food purposes, this would certainly be a “non-issue.”
The United States, as it always does, receives the blunt of the blame and will be pressured into giving almost a hundred percent of the aid for these under-developed countries. It will be the hardworking Americans who pay for this in their taxes.
Photo: A veteran farmer rides his aging orange tractor into corn fields surrounding Kutztown PA, as he prepares a harvest for sileage. (c) jzlomek.
To read the entire article, see U.S., EU must cut back on biofuels: U.N. adviser, by Ingrid Melander; Copyright (c) 2008, Reuters India.
