Environmentalism; what do you think when you hear this word? For all the good intentions this movement has going for it, and saving the earth is a very worthy cause, environmentalism has grown from more than a concern and desire to save our natural world and turned into an obsession of almost religious proportions. What once was a good cause has now become a vendetta to rid the world of the evils of green house gasses and those who create them, never mind the devastating damage to human beings they cause.
In case some of you don’t know, the price of food around the world has gone up steadily and is now, it would seem, nearing crisis levels. Take these articles into consideration.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1717572,00.html
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200804/NAT20080403c.html
Why are food prices skyrocketing? Why is there less and less food to eat? There is, believe it or not, a very frustrating connection between the environmentalists and the food crisis. Environmentalists have made it almost impossible for the US to drill for oil in our own nation, forcing us to rely on oil from nations such as Iran and Venezuela, nations that hate our guts in other words. Because of our lack of drilling the amount of oil at our disposal is down, forcing the price of gas up, which in turn makes it more expensive for trucks to drive groceries and other supplies to stores across the nation. Law of Supply and Demand people, economics 101. The less gas there is, which is a result of not being able to drill for it in Florida (where I live) and Alaska, the more expensive it will be, the more expensive it will be to transport ANYTHING, which drives up the price for EVERYTHING. Forget price gouging, forget taking away profits for oil companies, and forget McCain’s plan to lift the tax of gas for a short time (although that would be great) and just focus on getting MORE OIL! Drill, drill everywhere oil can be found. End our dependence on foreign oil and lower food prices, is that so hard to understand? You want gas and food prices to go down? We need to get more fuel.
But another problem that raises food supplies is (told you) government intervention in the private market. The government has been giving out large subsidies to companies to encourage them to create bio-fuel created from corn. Sounds great doesn’t it? A reusable fuel that doesn’t harm the environment and completely ends our dependence on foreign oil sounds great, except that this ethanol fuel doesn’t work very reliably at all and is expensive to create. There’s a reason no one actually uses it, the making of it consumes more fuel than it creates. Because of government subsidies farmers have stopped making other crops in order to make corn that will be turned into this impractical and wasteful fuel. So government intervention is part of the problem, you don’t say.
Please people, I love nature just as much as the next guy, but for me the environment takes a back seat to human beings. The fact of the matter is extreme environmentalism is the cause of our oil and food shortages today. America is one of the leading growers of food in the world, but if we waste all our time growing corn for ethanol which will never be used than the price of just about everything we need is just going to go up. It is unbelievably unethical to turn food into fuel in the middle of a food crisis.
In case some of you don’t know, the price of food around the world has gone up steadily and is now, it would seem, nearing crisis levels. Take these articles into consideration.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1717572,00.html
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200804/NAT20080403c.html
Why are food prices skyrocketing? Why is there less and less food to eat? There is, believe it or not, a very frustrating connection between the environmentalists and the food crisis. Environmentalists have made it almost impossible for the US to drill for oil in our own nation, forcing us to rely on oil from nations such as Iran and Venezuela, nations that hate our guts in other words. Because of our lack of drilling the amount of oil at our disposal is down, forcing the price of gas up, which in turn makes it more expensive for trucks to drive groceries and other supplies to stores across the nation. Law of Supply and Demand people, economics 101. The less gas there is, which is a result of not being able to drill for it in Florida (where I live) and Alaska, the more expensive it will be, the more expensive it will be to transport ANYTHING, which drives up the price for EVERYTHING. Forget price gouging, forget taking away profits for oil companies, and forget McCain’s plan to lift the tax of gas for a short time (although that would be great) and just focus on getting MORE OIL! Drill, drill everywhere oil can be found. End our dependence on foreign oil and lower food prices, is that so hard to understand? You want gas and food prices to go down? We need to get more fuel.
But another problem that raises food supplies is (told you) government intervention in the private market. The government has been giving out large subsidies to companies to encourage them to create bio-fuel created from corn. Sounds great doesn’t it? A reusable fuel that doesn’t harm the environment and completely ends our dependence on foreign oil sounds great, except that this ethanol fuel doesn’t work very reliably at all and is expensive to create. There’s a reason no one actually uses it, the making of it consumes more fuel than it creates. Because of government subsidies farmers have stopped making other crops in order to make corn that will be turned into this impractical and wasteful fuel. So government intervention is part of the problem, you don’t say.
Please people, I love nature just as much as the next guy, but for me the environment takes a back seat to human beings. The fact of the matter is extreme environmentalism is the cause of our oil and food shortages today. America is one of the leading growers of food in the world, but if we waste all our time growing corn for ethanol which will never be used than the price of just about everything we need is just going to go up. It is unbelievably unethical to turn food into fuel in the middle of a food crisis.
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