[Cob] Maybe the problem isn't oil

[Ron Becker]

Well said Paul. On this subject there was a good show on fresh air with 
Michael Pollan who wrote a book exposing the horrors purpetraded by 
Archer Daniels Midland and Cargill on the corn side of things [ 
shinning examples of the evil corporate amerika is capable of ] There 
are many others in egg and beef industry. If you do a search on npr for 
the author's name there are quite a few shows he's been on. The link 
below is from Fresh Air. The author discusses the fraud of the ethanol 
program, and the abuses of truth and animals in the egg and beef 
program industries

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5336252

Ron
Those who question global warming have a financial or emotional 
interest in the status quo.


On Jan 28, 2007, at 8:20 AM, paul wrote:

> NEZAHUALCOYOTL, Mexico -- Thick, doughy tortillas roll hot off the 
> conveyor belt all day at Aurora Rosales's little shop in this 
> congested city built on a dry lake bed east of Mexico City.
>
> Using cooking techniques that date to the Mayan empire, Rosales has 
> never altered her recipe. Nor did her father, grandfather or 
> great-grandfather.
> On good days, the neighbors line up for her tortillas. But these are 
> not good days, and sometimes hours pass without any customers.
>
> Mexico is in the grip of the worst tortilla crisis in its modern 
> history. Dramatically rising international corn prices, spurred by 
> demand for the grain-based fuel ethanol, have led to expensive 
> tortillas. That, in turn, has led to lower sales for vendors such as 
> Rosales and angry protests by consumers.
>
> The uproar is exposing this country's outsize dependence on tortillas 
> in its diet -- especially among the poor -- and testing the acumen of 
> the new president, Felipe Calderón. It is also raising questions about 
> the powerful businesses that dominate the Mexican corn market and are 
> suspected by some lawmakers and regulators of unfair speculation and 
> monopoly practices.
> *******************
>
> This is a most disturbing piece to me.  Not only is ehtanol not as 
> green as we are led to believe (it is oil dependent to grow, harvest, 
> process and ship) but it literally takes the food off of somebody's 
> table.
>
> Now we can say that an individual fuel isn't the problem - it's the 
> consumer of the fuel, the internal combustion engine.  But even that 
> begs the real question of why we chose this crap over Tesla's energy 
> sources, or even solar.  That is the original bottom line where The 
> Haves push us in a direction that is questionable at best.
>
>
>
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