ETHANOL: A NET ENERGY-LOSER ----------------- HEY, WAIT A MINUTE Corn Dog The ethanol subsidy is worse than you can imagine. By Robert Bryce Posted Tuesday, July 19, 2005, at 8:12 AM ET For the last generation, ethanol has been America's fuel of the future. But there has never been more hype about it than there is today. Green-energy analysts like Amory Lovins, environmental groups like the Natural Resources Defense Council, neoconservatives like James Woolsey, and farm groups like the American Coalition for Ethanol are all touting the biofuel. - Sat, Mar 8 2008 3:00 am http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/666f01cea38660c2?hl=en 15 Feb - Washington Post: biofuels exacerbate global warming Clearing land to produce biofuels such as ethanol will do more to exacerbate global warming than using gasoline or other fossil fuels, two scientific studies show. http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?id=3090&lists=newslog NY Times: crocodile tears re/world hunger ------------- March 3, 2008 EDITORIAL Priced Out of the Market The world's food situation is bleak, and shortsighted policies in the United States and other wealthy countries Ð which are diverting crops to environmentally dubious biofuels Ð bear much of the blame. - Sat, Mar 8 2008 3:00 am http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/cc1b3aac70585349?hl=en 26 Feb - Financial Times: Food rationing on the way "Food prices are rising on a mix of strong demand from developing countries; a rising global population; more frequent floods and droughts caused by climate change; and the biofuel industry's appetite for grains, analysts say." - Notice how the main problem -- the biofuels market -- is downplayed as much as possible in this article. -rkm http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?id=3122&lists=newslog 26 Feb - UN warns of food riots Middle Class May Be Subject To Food Rations, Warns UN http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?id=3124&lists=newslog Ethanol: The Global Poor Will Suffer the Worst The Global Poor Will Suffer the Worst Ethanol Hangover HENRY I. MILLER | 27 FEB 2008 WORLD POLITICS REVIEW EXCLUSIVE The headlong rush in many parts of the world to replace oil with biofuels (ethanol and biodiesel) illustrates how the best of intentions can run afoul of the law of unintended consequences. While positive effects have been elusive -- and, in fact, are unlikely with current policies -- starvation and malnourishment are becoming worse among the poorest of the poor. - Fri, Feb 29 2008 4:31 am http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/c459ac55875145e0?hl=en Soaring Food Prices Putting U.S. Emergency Aid in Peril --------- Soaring Food Prices Putting U.S. Emergency Aid in Peril Supplies and Recipients Likely to Be Reduced By Anthony Faiola Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, March 1, 2008; A01 The U.S. government's humanitarian relief agency will significantly scale back emergency food aid to some of the world's poorest countries this year because of soaring global food prices, and the US. Agency for International Development is drafting plans to reduce the number of recipient nations, the amount of food provided to them, or both, officials at the agency said. - Sun, Mar 2 2008 12:28 am http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/fa9afd6713d60bf0?hl=en African Holocaust (video) --------------- African Holocaust (audio is out of synch) - Sun, Mar 2 2008 12:28 am http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/1221f6683d085420?hl=en The Global Water Crisis ------------- The Global Water Crisis And The Coming Battle For The Right To Water By Maude Barlow 28 February, 2008 Fpif.org The following is an excerpt of Chapter 5 in Maude Barlow's latest book, Blue Covenant The Future of Water The three water crises - dwindling freshwater supplies, inequitable access to water and the corporate control of water - pose the greatest threat of our time to the planet and to our survival. Together with impending climate change from fossil fuel emissions, the water crises impose some life-or-death decisions on us all. Unless we collectively change our behavior, we are heading toward a world of deepening conflict and potential wars over the dwindling supplies of freshwater - between nations, between rich and poor, between the public and the private interest, between rural and urban populations, and between the competing needs of the natural world and industrialized humans. - Fri, Feb 29 2008 4:31 am http://groups.google.com/group/newslog/t/2f4b6becd26eac0c?hl=en 26 Feb - Factory Farms May Be Exempted From Emission Rules http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?id=3128&lists=newslog -- -------------------------------------------------------- cyberjournal: http://cyberjournal.org cyberjournal archives: http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/ How We the People can change the world http://www.governourselves.org/ Escaping the Matrix: http://escapingthematrix.org/ The Phoenix Project http://www.wakingthephoenix.org/ The Post-Bush Regime: A Prognosis http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7693 Community Democracy Framework: http://cyberjournal.org/DemocracyFramework.html newslog archives: http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?lists=newslog Moderator: •••@••.••• (comments welcome)
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