On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 8:01 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's easy to see which is more important... feeding a pet theory that > ethanol helps or working on world hunger... even thought the article is to > PC to mention this major consumption of food materials. It may be they > don't really understand the idea behind supply and demand theory. > > > http://www.comcast.net/news/articles/world/latinamerica/2008/03/24/Fighting.for.Food/ > > --
------------------------------------------------ I read most of the article and they failed to mention the reasons for the lower reserves or did I miss that? 2007 was a terrible year for weather if you were a farmer world wide. On top of that some acreage of food was shifted over to ethanol production crops but that is minor compared to the lackluster yield that farmers had in 07. Adding insult to injury the cost of raw materials in farming went through the roof making the selling prices soar. That shifts the supply demand to a new level outside of pure supply. When poor cannot afford cans of corn grits and are starving that is really placing a hardship on the hard pressed nations today. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer Mimeo.com Memphis TN 901.246-0159 --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
