Once again, the programs and ideas pushed by the Left result in utter failure, disaster and death. It's time the Left starts paying for their crimes, but they never do. 

Once APGW is tossed on the ash heap of history along with Soviet communism, the Left will find something else to demagogue and use to attain political power no matter how much misery they cause.

As long as children here in the US aren't hungry, the MSM and AGW people will play stupid on the issue or minimize it to claim we're insensitive to the larger problem that will hurt the Third World worse (that's their position btw, the loons actually posted it on another forum.) 

In fact, didn't the AGW people come out and advocate for reducing the earth's population?  I'm sure they wouldn't publicly advocate starvation since the public then would just blow off the whole AGW movement, but how did anyone think the population would be reduced for the shrill time line they advocate?  These people are long on schmaltz but short on coming clean on how they plan to actually impliment their ideas.

 Lord Sidious / Darth Vader 2008  Long Live the Empire!  Come to the Dark Side, it is your Destiny.

Cold, heartless, selfish unloving and anything else you want to call me is fine. People who would kill us and our children might starve. That does save the whales, so to speak, as well as ammunition.

The IMF and the UN are already blaming us (read me) for the food crisis. I'm not assuming any guilt this time. Drill ANWR, drill the Gulf of Mexico, and now, I guess, drill North Dakota, too. Canada has not yet asserted that we stole North Dakota from them, have they?

So does this mean the debate is back on again?

Antilibertarian bias has been actively keeping eyes away from what intelligensia types in 2006 (and then even Fidel Castro in 2007) have been saying about this subject. The Telegraph may have come up with a new article about it, but the idea that "biofuels suck for poor people" is not even close to a new insight.
JMR

The tax & spend drug war looks racist in the real world.

The American MSM might pickup this story But, they will not blame the uses of food for fuel. They will blame the floods and droughts that AGW is causing the crops to fail, not that they where not planted or went in the gas tank.

When you rob Peter to pay Paul...Peter gets pissed and Paul gets a fraction of what he is owed.

But of course plenty of Republicans also promoted ethanol, and the real story here ISN'T partisan, but about how Washington keeps giving our money away to big corporations that provide big contributions, and keep finding smooth ways to sell it to voters.

I agree with you that the media hasn't been particularly vigilant, and I have no interest in defending them. However, they are starting to pick up the story:
http://www.nytimes.c...

Pres. Bush: Our guiding principle is clear. We must lead the world to produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions and we must do it in a way that does not undermine economic growth or prevent nations from delivering greater prosperity for their people.

Not that this President has been much of a communicator, but his speech, on climate change, would be a great time to speak about this.  Tell the public that the biofuels industry has been created by and pushed by the liberal elites attempting to force their global warming theories down our throats, before the proof is in.

He could point out that, because of Democrats, the price of gas is up, the price of food is up, people are going hungry in the world, and all because of their politics.

Let's face it, investors know the U.S. won't be drilling for oil, building refineries, or constructing nuclear power plants with the Democrats running Congress.  It's a great time for them to exploit the situation, get some good money for the farmers in this biofuels scheme, and make up for the times they weren't making the big bucks.  If it weren't for the policies of our Democrats, this wouldn't be possible. 

Someone needs to hold them to account for what they've done and the results (this is only the beginning since rice is being affected by this also) they're achieving.  It's obvious the media won't so we're left with the President, finally utilizing the "bully pulpit" to put all this in perspective. 

I won't be holding my breath waiting for this to happen.

Democrats: Stuck on Stupid since 2000.