Currently these food riots, protesting food shortages, are occurring in, what could be considered, developing Third World countries. Reportedly, countries such as Haiti, Indonesia, and several African nations. However, before we, fat-cat Americans, get too smug regarding our perceptions of immunity from such things, you better be prepared and wake up because the underpinnings of your beliefs are being eroded by food shortages and food rationing, here in the good old USA, even as you sleep.
It is being reported by The New York Sun, Fox News and other news outlets that Costco is leading the way in food rationing with their stores in Queens, NY and Mountain View, CA that have, reportedly, imposed strict limits on the purchases of flour, cooking oil and rice.
The lack of export restrictions on grain from the US is leaving us with shortages and, for the first time in history, the breadbasket of the world is now importing wheat. The environmentalist's demand that we convert to biofuels has been very unhelpful and our grain and corn products are now being price driven and consumed by the energy markets in the form of ethanol.
The price of our food will continue to skyrocket, not only because it costs more in fuel to transport it, but because our food is being viewed by the environmentalists as energy in and of itself. The rapidly rising oil prices will directly effect the price of a bushel of wheat. Wheat that can be converted to ethanol.
Even though the rationing is in the beginning stages, it is a harbinger of things to come as our food continues in short supply and ending up in our gas tanks instead of on our table.
The United States is awash in undeveloped oil reserves, both in the Gulf of Mexico and in the North of Alaska, but the environmentalists don't want you to have it. They would rather create artificial petroleum shortages and take the food off of your table, out of the mouths of your children, and put it in your gas tank.
Visions of the movie "Soylent Green" loom, darkly, in our future.
If you know an environmentalist whacko, the next time you see them, ask them why they support a system that will, ultimately, lead to your children going hungry. They will, probably, beat a rapid retreat to their Mercedes and drive off, never to be heard from again.
As it is now, and until hydrogen fuel cell technology is developed to commercial levels, fossil fuels should be for burning and food should be for eating.
It is being reported by The New York Sun, Fox News and other news outlets that Costco is leading the way in food rationing with their stores in Queens, NY and Mountain View, CA that have, reportedly, imposed strict limits on the purchases of flour, cooking oil and rice.
The lack of export restrictions on grain from the US is leaving us with shortages and, for the first time in history, the breadbasket of the world is now importing wheat. The environmentalist's demand that we convert to biofuels has been very unhelpful and our grain and corn products are now being price driven and consumed by the energy markets in the form of ethanol.
The price of our food will continue to skyrocket, not only because it costs more in fuel to transport it, but because our food is being viewed by the environmentalists as energy in and of itself. The rapidly rising oil prices will directly effect the price of a bushel of wheat. Wheat that can be converted to ethanol.
Even though the rationing is in the beginning stages, it is a harbinger of things to come as our food continues in short supply and ending up in our gas tanks instead of on our table.
The United States is awash in undeveloped oil reserves, both in the Gulf of Mexico and in the North of Alaska, but the environmentalists don't want you to have it. They would rather create artificial petroleum shortages and take the food off of your table, out of the mouths of your children, and put it in your gas tank.
Visions of the movie "Soylent Green" loom, darkly, in our future.
If you know an environmentalist whacko, the next time you see them, ask them why they support a system that will, ultimately, lead to your children going hungry. They will, probably, beat a rapid retreat to their Mercedes and drive off, never to be heard from again.
As it is now, and until hydrogen fuel cell technology is developed to commercial levels, fossil fuels should be for burning and food should be for eating.
6 comments:
How right you, it is frightening to look ahead , I heard on Npr this morning that food selfs are giving mother"s of babies one week of formula instead of three, so they are watering down the formula;s to feed to their children, we will be going hungry.
Hi Joe, While I agree with your article, any "environmentalist whacko" who has a clue knows that the current program in the US to convert food crops to Ethanol adn other fuels is absolutley ridiculous! Organizations and people in other countries think it is one of the most inane programs the US has ever put forward. And who is pushing biofuels??? The current administration (would you call them environmental whackos??) I guess that my overall point is that we agree on this issue, but when you resort to rhetoric and name calling, you are being counter productive to solving the issue - let's put aside the names and labels, and focus on keeping our children fed ok???
Hi Ken, We are in agreement on everything except one point. Whether or not the current administration is pushing biofuels is largely a matter of opinion. While this administration may have given lip-service to the promotion of biofuels, they also stated, years ago, that they supported fuel cell technology. However, I still cannot find a filling station nearby that dispenses hydrogen. All of the Liberals that I talk to swear that this administration is all about big oil and NOT alternative sources of energy, including biofuels. An additional feature that I failed to mention in the article is that the environmentalists have, historically, fought new refineries that distill the crude int a more usable form. Put it all together and the environmentalists are emerging as a group which has taken it upon themselves to commit national suicide in the name of "We The People". I think that any group with this set of attributes is fully qualified to bear the name "Whackos", don't you?
"When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, 'Come and see.' So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, 'A quart of wheat for a denarius (average food price x12), and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.'" Revelation 6:5-6
AHHH . . . A piping hot bowl of biodiesel with a good Chianti - or would a Chablis be better?
I just received word from a correspondent in the Philippines that the rice shortage there is a result of the acquisition of vast quantities of arable land for the development of shopping malls and for growing sugar cane for the production of ethanol.
Will the Filipinos eat Gucci handbags and drink ethanol?
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