The amount of corn needed to fill one car gas tank with bio fuel would feed a child for a year!
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Study: Biofuels
pushing people to poverty
CHINAVIEW
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NEW DELHI, June 26 – CHINAVIEW – The biofuel policies pursued by the rich countries are pushing millions of people in the developing world into poverty, an Oxfam’ study says, according to the Hindustan Times Thursday.
Oxfam, a group of non-governmental organizations, launched the report at a time when leaders of the industrialized countries are to discuss policies to mitigate the impact of climate change at a G-8 conference in Japan early July.
Quoting World Bank estimates, the study says the price of food has increased by 83 percent in the last three years, which is disastrous for the world’s poor people.
“The lives of about 290 million people are immediately threatened because of the food crises,” the study says.
(AL GORE CAST THE TIE BREAKING
VOTE FOR BIO FUELS IN CONGRESS)
The study attributes 30 percent of the rise in food prices to bio-fuels and says it has pushed 30 million people into poverty already.
“Today’s bio-fuels are not solving the climate or fuel crises but are instead contributing to food insecurity and inflation, hitting poor people the hardest,”
said Rob Balley, the author of the report.
Blaming the rich countries for the crises, the report says the subsidies for bio-fuels by the United States and Europe are taxing food for poor in the developing world.
The report recommends that the richer countries should freeze implementation of future bio-fuel mandates and dismantle subsidies and tax exemptions to bio-fuels to save more people from falling into poverty and accelerate the global food crisis.
(AL GORE CAST THE TIE BREAKING
VOTE FOR BIO FUELS IN CONGRESS)
Misconceptions
I am amazed at how many people perceive the account of how the devil told Jesus that he owns all the kingdoms of the world, and that he would give them to Jesus, if Jesus would bow down and worship him. Many believe that indeed the devil owns and rules this world, have they not read the words of Jesus, that the devil is the father of lies. What a huge misconception this is for Christians who believe these lies.
Do you remember how God had to put right Nebuchadnezzar’s foolishness by giving him a message from angelic beings called watchers and holy ones in the book of Daniel, ch 4 v 17.
I quote, “This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones, to the intent that the living my know that the most High rules in the kingdom of men, and He gives it to whomsoever He will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.”
Now you can see that the wicked one rules and owns nothing on this earth, he may lie to men like Nebuchadnezzar, and other evil rulers of this world, but they all come to a very sorry end indeed. History has proved it over and over again, so do not be deceived when you see evil men in power, for surely in a little while they shall be no more. Let us always remember that God rules in heaven and on earth and gives it to whoever He wants to. Psalm 83 v 18, “That men may know that thou whose name alone is Jehovah art the most High over all the earth.”
EVANGELIST BILLY BOLITHO
http://www.evangelistbillybolitho.blogspot.com
cornishevangelist - June 28, 2008 at 8:40 am |
That kid’s going to get fed up eating corn and hominy! Corn used in bio-fuel is not table corn. Corn growing reigns grow corn because it is the crop best suited for that areas climate conditions. The are not in general planting corn in former rice paddies or plowing up cabbage crops to plant corn.
After fermentation, the corn residue is still used in livestock and chicken feeds.
Many countries of the world will not eat corn even when they are starving! The USA sent among other things can corn to African countries, they fed the corn to a goat and saved the can!
pobept - June 28, 2008 at 11:16 am |
Someone needs to tell Al Gore and Obama that we are making kids go hungry! http://goodtimepolitics.com/2008/06/23/why-obama-supports-ethanol-production-over-off-shore-drilling/
goodtimepolitics - June 29, 2008 at 3:13 am |