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Over the Kohls on Sunday, April 20, 2008 2:35:22 PM
Liberals have increasingly used the poor excuse of worrying about spoiling our environment rather than drill for more oil. With the technology that we now have, drilling for oil nearly anywhere is as safe as it has ever been. The misplaced and melodramatic concern about the environment is akin to not walking across your lawn to help an elderly lady who fell on the sidewalk in front of your house for fear making footprints in the lawn. The search for alternative fuels has lead us down the path of using our own food crop to burn in our cars. The race to convert corn to ethanol has also increased corn production to the exclusion of other grain crops particularly wheat, creating even more shortages of these world feeding grains. What we have now done in diverting the corn crop for ethanol fuel use has unintentionally created a world food crisis. According to a column in the Cleveland Plain Dealer this morning written by liberal think tank director Anuradha Mittal, world food prices have increased by 39% in the last year. Food riots have erupted in Egypt, Guinea, Haiti, Indonesia, Mauritania, Mexico, Senegal, Uzbekistan and Yemen. There surely are other causes besides the conversion of the corn crop to ethanol of this world food crisis but this is one chief cause. The third world must look at us as some kind of monsters. On the one hand we are the envy of the world in our capacity to provide food for the world but we are now appearing like some gluttonous ogres by converting corn that could feed starving millions to fuel for the automobile.
Nevermind that the benefits of using ethanol in our cars is very suspect. It’s less efficient than gasoline, more expensive than gasoline, it takes more energy to produce than gasoline, but this conversion makes the Liberals feel as though they are doing their part taking us off the oil dependency so the cause and effect of this conversion doesn’t appear to matter to them.
Make no mistake that that this world food crisis rests squarely on the shoulders of liberals who always tell us that they know better than most of us and that if only we would listen to them, their solutions will lead us all to the promised land. Problem is the road to the promised land has left us in a parched dustbowl of unintended consequences.