> On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:02:29 -0700, calderh...@yahoo.com wrote:

>>http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080612/commodities_review.html?.v=3

>

>> Corn jumps to record for 6th day on Midwest floods  - "Corn for July
>> delivery rose 5.75 cents to settle at $7.09 a bushel on the Chicago
>> Board of Trade, after earlier rising to a new all-time high of $7.25 a
>> bushel.  It was corn's sixth straight trading record in as many
>> days."

>

>> The king of starvation, Barack Obama, still insists we should turn
>> even more corn into lousy, gas tank rusting ethanol fuel instead of
>> eating it and feeding it to our farm animals which give us dairy
>> products, meat, and eggs.  The more biofuels we produce, the less food
>> we have to eat, because we grow biofuel crops, even switchgrass, using
>> the same land, water, fertilizer, farm equipment, and labor we use to
>> grow food.

>
> The crap above has little to do with anything other than an Obama smear.
> The attack is motivated by Obama's support for an excess profits tax on
> oil companies and his support for alternative fuels.  These things are
> anathema to Republican fascists who want to continue their love affair
> with big oil.
>
> http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/05/obama-voices-do.html----
>
>  In an interview on NBC's Meet the Press, the Democratic presidential
>  candidate said "there's no doubt that biofuels may be contributing" to
>  falling food supplies and rising prices.
>
>  "If it turns out that we've got to make changes in our ethanol policy to
>  help people get something to eat, then that's got to be the step we
>  take," he said.
>
> ...
>
> "We've got a serious food problem around the world. We've got rising food
> prices here in the United States. In other countries we're seeing riots
> because of the lack of food supplies. So this is something that we're
> going to have to deal with," said Obama.
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>
> In a world that needs corn for food there is no reason to be doing
> anything to "encourage" corn for biofuels.  The corn farmers do not care
> who buys the ^&#^^@*&^%% corn. There is, however a need to make a deal with
> Cuba for sugar cane and a reason to do away with the tax on biofuels from
> Brazil.
>
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