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Biofuel Will Impoverish The Planet Biofuel is already killing many, many poor people. So it is not that I am trying to be dramatic. I could not possibly be dramatic enough. Of the earth's 6.66 billion residents, 4 billion live in poverty, and those at the bottom of that group are already very skinny and without sufficient food to be able to function normally. The biofuel famine will push millions of those poorest families into the clutches of death, thanks to our leaders turning mountains of food into biofuel. The estimates are 10 to 20 million dead in 2008 alone! This is urgent, folks, and largely under the radar! Most of these people will die due to weakend immune systems which are depleted by a lack of nutrition. That is the main, indirect way that a lack of sufficient food kills people, but many will die of direct, emaciating starvation as well. World leaders attending the recent Progressive Governance Summit in England heard testimony from experts about the growing global food crisis and the destructive impact of turning food into fuel. Former US President Bill Clinton spoke frankly at the meeting, stating that "What's really hurting the food markets is America moving into ethanol. People there are moving into corn and you have pasta riots in Italy related to what some people are doing in farming in America." Biofuels are touted as the solution to global warming. Global warming may or may not be true. But biofuels are a disaster that can only lead to more human misery, hunger, and environmental destruction no matter what biofuel crops we grow. Two years ago the price of corn was only $2 bushel, now due to the increase in demand for corn for biofuel production the price has tripled which raises the price of chicken, eggs, beef, and dairy products, as corn is our main animal feed. In the year 2007, the USA alone turned enough corn, soybeans, and rapeseed into biofuels to satisfy the yearly caloric needs of over 250 million people. The World Bank states that staple food prices have increased by an incredible 80% in the 3 year period from 2005 to 2008 and 33 nations now face political instability as a result. There have been food riots in at least 20 different countries, even in wealthy Italy. In Haiti, some of the poor have resorted to eating cookies made of mud! The food riots in Haiti have looked more like revolution than just demand for food. Biofuel is a bad idea that sounds like a good idea and there is no way to make it match up with the realities of the real world so it becomes something positive for either the environment or the economy. Many independent studies from agencies, universities, etc show that ethanol from cellulose (switchgrass, wood chips, crops waste, etc.) will never be cost effective. Affordable biodiesel fuel from algae is a pipe dream that has wasted research money since the 1970s. Making ethanol from corn takes so much natural gas, coal, and oil to produce that it is not energy efficient, and certainly not worth the disastrous environmental and human life destruction it causes. Scores of scientific studies from respected authorities have demonstrated that results from biofuel generation include torture of wildlife, destruction of the biosphere and faster global warming. There is so much evidence that biofuel is a disastrous "solution" to the Earth and its inhabitants, that one wonders who promotes it still. Obviously, not anyone with humanity's best interests at heart. While all of this goes on there are real solutions coming forward but these are all at the grassroots level. Water4Gas is one of the best. WATER4GAS is providing information at a low price which consumers can use in their garage or wherever to build a small device which infuses hydrogen into the fuel/air mixture that their car runs on. The process makes bite sized particles out of the ones that the engine burns as fuel. Because of the smaller size the system is able to use much more of the fuel. With WATER4GAS you can reasonably expect to improve your fuel economy by 30-50% or significantly more. With WATER4GAS gasoline is made consumable so you can improve your fuel economy. It also helps make emissions substantially cleaner. This information has been purchased by over NINE THOUSAND people already and happy members number about 99%! So how about you?
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