...redefining the word chutzpah.... 

Due to rising costs that are the direct result of their turning food into fuel, the producers of ethanol are said to be looking for increases in their subsidies.   

...I'm betting the government says yes, redefining the word stupidity....

I told you ... I told you this would happen.  It is happening with corn, and now grains.

Call it a sin ... Call it extremely stupid, especially when there are people in the world who could actually eat the food that is being used for bio-fuels ... Or just call it completely WRONG!

Until we come up with some new form of fuel source ... Cold fusion, nuke, or H3 from the surface of the Moon ... DRILL ANWR, and anywhere else that can be drilled!  Meanwhile, continue to develope synthetic alternatives ... But leave the food sources alone!

Maybe one of Newsbusters' crack reporters could do some work to expose the lazy, stupid reporting (and seeming disinformation) about hydrogen fuel common in the MSM.

Hydrogen powered cars might end up being a great thing, but hydrogen is not a source energy even though it is often reported that way.

(As in, "Why not just use clean burning hydrogen instead of diesel or gas?")

Hydrogen is made artificially by separating hydrogen atoms from H20 (water) which is a very energy intensive process.  It is created using large amounts of electricity from hydro (dams), and or nuclear, coal, and gas power plants.

In other words, hydrogen is simply a convenient way to hold, carry, and use energy.

Hydrogen might help in reducing air pollution (depending on the source of electricity used to produce it), but hydrogen is NOT a part of the energy solution.  

   Raising crops involves a lot of labor, especially compared to the refinement of crude oil. 

  The more ethanol used the higher the price of grains.  The higher the price of grains the higher the price of ethanol/fuel.  The higher price of ethanol/fuel the higher the cost of producing ethanol.   I'm seeing a bad pattern here.

The rising cost of grain based food items has been upon us for the past year or so due to several factors: The hurricanes of 05 (Bush's fault of course) did affect crop yields due to excess rainfall which actually hurts the harvest if it occurs at the wrong time. Flooded crop fields rot if over hydrated.

The ethanol frenzy caused additional upward pressure in the price of corn ( libs, this is supply & demand in its naked form) as demand for this crop increased dramatically. Farmers then converted fields to corn from other crops (ie wheat) because they could yield more dollars per acre. Common sense says you plant the money crop. Now we see a spike in the price of wheat based items. As these crops become higher in value, their production will no doubt be increased, causing the stabilization of its price. Farmers also have the option of planting fallow fields to increase production of these now higher value crops (you don't plant if it's not worth it). Production increases to meet demand. 

Once again the summer of 07 brought higher than normal rainfall in the grainbelt (not a result of hurricanes this time, but still Bush's fault) which exacerbated the 06 "shortages.

As both corn and grain prices rose, so did the price of  livestock based food items (milk, cheese, meat etc). Livestock eats grain, grain costs more, milk & other livestock byproducts cost more as you pass along the increases, yada yada...

To conclude that this is a result of Global Warming is bunk, except for the relatively small diversion of corn for ethanol which was the RESULT of GW hysteria, the classic chicken & egg argument. Its supply and demand, simple as that.

As someone who has been in the wholesale foodservice business for 20 plus years, these inflationary trends are cyclical, though not 100% predictable. Our nations farmers are quite skilled at adapting to these changes and do so as quickly as nature allows ( the time it takes to grow a particular crop.)

Having said that, they are still at the mercy of Mother Nature (if you get a prolonged frost in Florida in March, the price of O.J. goes up). That I'm sure is also Bush's fault.

Let this nation's farmers do what they do best, and things will stablize...they always do. As for reducing our nation's reliance on fossil fuels? LEAVE THE FOOD CHAIN ALONE! Nuke plants, Hydro, wind...fine. Converting raw foodstuffs into energy products is taking one resourse and subbing it for another. In the long run it will hurt more than it will help.  

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.  ~ Unknown

I have honestly tried to educate people here, but the lessons do not seem to gather any momentum or understanding for the simple reason most people here think crops and regions are interchangeable when nothing is farther from the truth.

It will floor people here that all wheat is not wheat. Arid areas like North Dakota and Kansas produce winter wheat which is used in pasta and is called Amber Durum. Hard Red Spring Wheat which South Dakota and Nebraska produce in quantity is bread wheat.

These arid areas are not profitable nor capable without massive irrigation to plant into corn or soybeans.......for one major reason the season are too short for long season 120 day corn.

Added to this places like Arkansas and Louisiana grow rice. North Dakota in the Red River Valley grows sugar beets and Arizona produces vegetables. NONE OF THESE AREAS are being sown into other crops, because it would make no profit sense.

For the most part, Iowa, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana grow row crops like corn and beans. They might grow wheat if it's 7 dollar a bushel price DRIVEN UP BY CHICAGO TRADERS holds into next season on their speculation.........BUT THE MOMENT A MILLION MORE ACRES SHOWS UP IN WHEAT, the Chicago Board will sell short, profit from the crop price drop and leave farmers holding worthless wheat.

It took the alarmists over a 6 months to figure out what I blogged about in there being shortages due to the fact ethanol is only an additive and not a main fuel in supply. What the dolts have not figured out yet is all that corn and soybean for bio fuels IS ALL STILL FOOD and in fact better food as the steaming and fermentation all break down the grains to more digestable matter for livestock.......and people if they would eat the stuff as people do not normally eat oil soybeans no more than genetic corn as it is grown for livestock feed and after market products like corn oil.

What has driven up prices are trader's speculating on data like they always do and absolute suckers going into panic over "shortages". The fact is world food supply shortages were starting several years ago. One major factor was China eating up everything and the other was the Clinton's sold off the America "Joseph food supply reserve" which this nation has always kept in the advent of catastrophe.

This is why I have been advocating Congress start investingating Al Gore and people like Galen McKinley in the combined billions these hucksters are taking in in global warming scams when this money should be invested in seed banks and a national food and shelter reserve.

Now to inform the kiddies of where this is going now that most are chattering about bio fuels not understanding a thing they are discussing.

My attention perked up immensely when George Bush announced his bio fuels plan. I know this from the grain, fermenters to distribution scams inflating prices on the west and east coast. I knew something was being planned as the President had just initiated a policy leaving the Middle East in 2 years to it's own destruction and was pulling the rug in behind America.

Added to this was the Mexican drilling in the Gulf of new vast oil reserves when America was leaving it's supplies all untapped. Yes there is mucho renewable oil not drilled and just as much sitting drilled and untapped all across the west "waiting higher prices".

All of that pointed to a major shift in national policy and that is what I let the cat out of the bag in the SUBJECT, FOOD AS A WEAPON.

No one has noticed this and besides my personal letters this is a Newsbuster exclusive again. It appears a failsafe has been initiated in a doomsday plan that is going to rock the world. The dollar has deflated which is what is driving up with speculation oil and the cost of food. President Bush is quite intelligent as are his advisers and they know very well that the market forces will do what they are doing in driving food prices higher..........but you have seen nothing yet.

Food is the equalizer and if you study consumption trends, China has already purchased all of the Asian food supply available. China nor India has no more land or water to grow more food. Europe is at it's output level and Russia is incapable of increased production.

That leaves Oz which is arid and can only grow wheat, but not in abundant supply. South America is bean country and at supply. Africa is a net loss and the only nation capable of driving supply is the United States and it sold off it's Joseph reserves and is now inflating prices at a counter measure to nuclear bombs, asian hordes and Muslim oil prices.

Try pouring a bowl of uranium in the morning, sopped up with oil and a side order of people........and one soon concludes that in real life Eurasian theaters that the entire almost 4 billion people who are quite hateful to America are sitting upon a doomsday clock waiting to implode.

According to my calculations Iran will die, like China, India and Indonesia literally in 90 days. They can not invade by sea nor can they march to Europe as their troops would die before they arrived. This is checkmate on a world stage and food by market forces is being waged as a weapon of war.

I do not believe none of the communists have quite got this figured out yet nor have the children in America squawking about bio fuels. Russia has prepared with nuclear cities and new nuclear toys, but even in mass they can not waste them upon America as they have 3 billion very angry Muslims, Chinese and Indians on their borders. The Chicom males are extremely ripe right now as there are no women for them to pacify them as they have all been aborted by government orders.

A powder keg has been set and when push comes to shove as it is approaching the United States will be hurt immensely in consumer problems in pricing........but Americans will still have the food to buy even if it takes all their money and the rest of the world will be quite angry at being hungry and at that moment they will do what nations always do is send the boys out to conquer something so the leadership doesn't have to deal with a revolution.

As stated I have posted this in public here first to try and educate people on where this curve is trending, because while it appears everyone is dogging it about the trail being left they have no idea who laid the trail and where it is leading.

At least in part now the children do and now can start liberal whining is food as a weapon regulator a just cause.....considering the alternative is eating Chinese and Russian nuclear weapons in Chicago and all over America, logic would dictate the conclusion it is a perfect response from this President.

I may not agree with President Bush a whole lot lately as I know there are "Reagan out of the box" ways out of this in God's Grace, but that Texican is a whole lot brighter than 99.999% of Americans in playing this game years down the line.

Hopefully before the nitwits catch up and start intitiating dufus ideas again like they are now about "food prices" readers here can at least say, "Oh I read about that months ago on Newsbusters and that is not what is going on at all."

There are always more secrets, but that is enough to digest for now as we enter the future born before it's informational time.

agtG

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Increasing corn and wheat prices make some of the libs perfectly happy.  Particularly the ones that think humans are the curse of the earth.  If fewer of us can afford to feed ourselves then more of us will die off and there will be fewer of us to harm their planet.  I don't know who is in charge of their grand plan though.  Who is the one who knows when enough is enough?  Who will report back when everyone is dead?  Just wondering how their kooky plan works.

“Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.”  Ronald Reagan