Congress turning food to biofuel increases food costs

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Biofuel Production Causing Ecological Damage, Food Shortages

Oil price increases have not shrunk the human food supply, but biofuel production has! The more biofuels we produce, the less food we have to eat, because we grow biofuel crops, even switchgrass, using the same land, water, fertilizer, farm equipment, and labor we use to grow food.

The world is running out of wheat because too many wheat farmers have switched to growing corn for ethanol production. The United States Department of Agriculture has stated that by May 31, 2008, US wheat supplies will be lower than any time since 1948, when the United States population was under 147 million people.

According to the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization, global food prices rose 40% in 2007 alone. Wheat prices rose 25% on just one day, Feb. 25, 2008, and the American Bakers Association plans a protest against high wheat prices in Washington DC on March 12.

When American politicians foolishly turn our food into fuel, they raise food prices globally which gives other countries a financial incentive to burn down rainforests in order to grow more food. Poor people in Haiti are now resorting to eating mud because American biofuel mandates have made grains unaffordable. As we heartlessly starve the world's poor, pressure for illegal immigration to the USA continues to rise. Biofuel production aggravates water shortages, and it takes 9,000 gallons of water to create just 1 gallon of biodiesel.

Huntington