In 2004, before the ethanol crisis materialized, corn sold a $2.00 per bushel. In 2005, our Congress imposed a renewable fuel standard (RFS) mandating the gasoline industry to blend ethanol into our fuel supply.  In 2007, Congress doubled the mandate, requiring upward of nine billion gallons of ethanol be blended into our gas supply in 2008.

The mandated use of “food for fuel” has caused food prices to escalate, hurting the poorer of us the most. This year, corn prices approach $8.00 per bushel, or a 300% increase since 2004. As a result, more land is devoted to corn with less land devoted to other crops, e.g., wheat. Food prices are sky-rocketing: cattle fed with corn; corn based products such as tortillas. Small companies based on corn are disappearing.

The World Bank analysis stated that bio-fuels have forced global food prices up by 75%, which contradicts the U.S. Government’s claims that bio-fuels contribute less than 3% to food price increases. Food price increases have placed 100 million more people below the poverty line, according to the World Bank, just as many liberals and socialists are demanding that America feed the World’s poor.

Ethanol supporters in Congress, primarily Democrats (Don’t Drill Here, Don’t Drill More, Pay More) are imposing a nationalistic program that is destroying segments of America’s economy. Establishing a stranglehold on America’s energy sector reflects what the Mussolinis, Hitlers, and Stalins of the world have done to control the masses and make people more dependent on the government for survival.  Already, the liberal-socialist faction of the Democrat Party has been able to create a two-class America: the 50% of Americans who pay income taxes versus the 50% of Americans who do not and are dependent on government largesse to live.

Already, countries around the world are beginning to ask serious questions about the bio-fuel industry and its impact on food prices. Ethanol was expanded as a renewable resource to off-set damage from so-called global warming. However, global warming, now called climate change, has been discredited by respected scientists and former global warming enthusiasts.

At the lead of serious scientists, Dr. Roy Spencer has published a required read for anyone interested in the facts of climate change (Climate Confusion – How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians, and Misguided Policies That Hurt the Poor). Even former advocates of global warming like David Evans admits that since 1999 through 2007, the evidence shows that carbon plays only a minor role and it is not the cause of global warming.

Arthur Herman, noted historian, observed that, “It has been a tough year for the high priests of global warming in the US. First, NASA had to correct its earlier claim that the hottest year on record in the contiguous US had been 1998, which seemed to prove that global warming was on the march. It was actually 1934. Then it turned out the world’s oceans have been growing steadily cooler, not hotter, since 2003. Meanwhile, the winter of 2007 was the coldest in the US in decades.

Roland Clift, Professor of Environmental Technology at Surrey University, believes the use of biofuels is likely to increase greenhouse emissions. Further, he stated, “Biodiesel is a complete scam because in the tropics the growing demand is causing forests to be burnt to make way for palm oil and similar crops.”  This deforestation is already occurring in Brazil, where rainforests are being destroyed to make way for sugar cane, the basis for Brazil’s primary biofuel.

It appears that bio-fuels such as ethanol, while lining the pockets of people like Al Gore with his carbon off-set scam, may be worse for our earth than oil.