World Bank states biofuels have increased food cost 75%.

SoylentGreen · Heavy Crude Joined: May 25, 2008 Posts: 168

.....and wasnt published do to American pressure because it would make the government look bad. The Gaurdian Newspaper got a hold of it and published in thier daily.(London)

This story can be read via YAHOO, its a headline on there home page under NEWS

auscanman

I can't wait to hear what the spin doctors in government and the biofuels industry will have to say about this.

VMarcHart · Last edited by VMarcHart on Fri Jul 04, 2008 10:39 am; edited 1 time in total

We didn't need for the World Bank to tell us that. Every time we fuel our never-ending ever-growing driving habit with food, food price will go up. I'm surprised it's only 75%, and not 150%.

dukey · Fission Joined: Feb 20, 2005 Posts: 2064

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jul/03/biofuels.renewableenergy

SoylentGreen · Heavy Crude Joined: May 25, 2008 Posts: 168

The funny thing is the US Govt. states food prices have only gone up 3%.
Does the government hire accountants from bankrupt wall street hedgefunds and corrupt financial companies? What formula do thier figures on unemployment percentages deficits and GDP/economic growth come from?

pstarr

Lorenzo you predicted a worker's paradise. Instead we have 3rd world hunger. How does your biofuel Mercedes feel now?
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SoylentGreen · Heavy Crude Joined: May 25, 2008 Posts: 168

I have heard spin from Bio tech/agri-tech conglomerates like Monsanto who state they have developed seeds that can yield twice the crop per acre and that is going eventually solve that problem?

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VMarcHart

Sadly we always associate the US as the omnipotent nation, and everyone else starving to death.

In our Independence Day ... here's to you, America. White blue-eyed folks starving right in front of our very hypocritical eyes.

timmac · Heavy Crude Joined: Mar 27, 2008 Posts: 258

You surly cant just beleave that some report or news says that Bio-Fuels alone has cause the high food prices all by it self,, many of you have read of very high fertilzer prices right,, do you know how much fuel is needed to grow food and transport,, How about those DVD's that most of you have watch that has said with high oil prices that cheap food will be a thing of the past,, [crude awaking,, etc],, but some one in the world bank makes a report and you seem to fall all over your self beleaving as if it was gospel,, many things are causing high food prices not just Bio-Fuel,, but with the way many people beleave this I think the next Prez will kill this program and it will be all for nothing,, and watch and see food price wont go back down then I can come back and say I told you so,,, Find the real truth at what is the real problem don't always beleave some hack story and run with it......... [$140.00 a barrel oil has no effect on food prices,, you have to be nuts...]

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timmac · Heavy Crude Joined: Mar 27, 2008 Posts: 258

What about a the farm land wasted to grow tobacco for cancer sticks, coffee beans for that $5 coffee at Starbucks,, farm land paved over for highways, shopping malls, condos, walmarts, etc,, what about weather that has ruined food crops all around the world, what about a world popualation that is growing very very fast,, 7 billon people by 2015,, $140.00 a barrel oil, high shipping cost, etc, etc, etc, little of this was in the report,, [but no its all Bio-Fuel that is causing this]........So what next Bio-Fuel is hurting our economy,, airlines bankrupt because of Bio-Fuel,, auto makers blame Bio-Fuel for there problems,,, NO folks maybe its more the very high price of oil.....................................

alokin · Intermediate Crude Joined: Aug 24, 2007 Posts: 873

How many barrel of oil would be missing per day without biofuels?
On how many hectares is this biofuel produced which was formerly used as agricultural land?

I think these biofuels took away the cushion, that's the bad thing.
Even without climate change the governments should always calculate with bad harvests and it's really irresponsible not to have any stock.

balister · Coal Joined: Jul 10, 2008 Posts: 2

Some facts about the situation on food prices:

The price of Diesel fuel in the US has gone up by almost 500% since 2000 and has doubled in price since 2006.

US Farms use farm vehicles that use, you guessed it, diesel to help harvest crops.

Food is transported by vehicles that use, you guessed it, diesel to get the food to market.

Corn and Grains slated for use to make biofuels are designated for livestock consumption, not human consumption and the left over corn and grains are still nutritionally useful for livestock.

Simply put, the person(s) at the World Bank that came up with this logic are either a) inept and have absolutely no understanding of economics, b) corrupt and getting paid under the table by the oil industry and OPEC to make it look like this is being caused by something other than their lack of production, c) a combination of a) and b).

pstarr