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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-26-07 04:53 PM Original message |
UN expert decries turning food into fuel |
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AndyTiedye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-26-07 06:37 PM Response to Original message |
1. If They Must Make Biofuels Out of Food, Let Them Make It Out of Sugar |
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truthisfreedom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-26-07 06:44 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Sugar from beets, perhaps. |
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sam sarrha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-26-07 09:18 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. ties up land for food crops... hemp oil is nearly processless, and polutionless |
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sam sarrha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-27-07 12:11 PM Response to Reply #1 |
20. ag hemp oil will free us from forign oil, and put local farmers in buisnrss |
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underpants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-26-07 06:46 PM Response to Original message |
3. (pulls up chair to watch this die a sudden death for a speeding fall) |
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Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-26-07 09:20 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Amen to that. n/t |
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sam sarrha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-26-07 09:16 PM Response to Original message |
4. full tank of alcohol for an SUV represents food corn for a starving african for about a year |
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Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-26-07 09:26 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. I'm still amazed at how terrified politicians are of hemp |
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sam sarrha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-27-07 11:53 AM Response to Reply #7 |
19. they are afraid the oil corps will cut their campaign contributions off |
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Teaser (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-27-07 07:20 AM Response to Reply #4 |
10. But we produce more than enough food to feed everyone already |
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sam sarrha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-27-07 11:51 AM Response to Reply #10 |
17. that went over your head.. it is immoral, it is not the efficient way to produce fuel, starvation is... |
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olddad56 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-26-07 09:26 PM Response to Original message |
8. let them eat cake. |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-27-07 01:19 AM Response to Original message |
9. . |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-27-07 07:24 AM Response to Original message |
11. Well the Nazi we recruited to found Plum Island could wipe out the |
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Pale Blue Dot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-27-07 10:10 AM Response to Original message |
12. Biofuels 'crime against humanity' |
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Gman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-27-07 10:10 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Even Bush said a few years ago that this was one problem with ethanol |
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Fierce (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-27-07 10:10 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Corn is a terrible biofuels crop. |
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nebula (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-27-07 11:29 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Efficiency isn't the goal |
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PhD (284 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-27-07 05:33 PM Response to Reply #14 |
21. Corn ethanol also produces as much pollution as gasoline n/t |
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tom_paine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-27-07 11:35 AM Response to Original message |
16. It might hurt global food supply, but many rich people will become richer fromthe boondoggle |
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Mika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-27-07 11:52 AM Response to Original message |
18. Visit to Cuba by UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food |
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Pavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-27-07 05:37 PM Response to Original message |
22. Indoor Ski slopes in the desert? |
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NickB79 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 02:22 PM Response to Original message |
23. So, just for kicks I looked up how much ethanol the US made in 2006 |
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