Environmentalists and BIO fuels

Here's a thought about liberals and their push toward bio fuels. Liberals are sensitive people who want to take care of the poor, even those in other countries who are suffering. But liberals love the environment to a fault. So much so that they hate oil.

So what happens? They push the government to pay for programs to develop fuels created from corn and soybeans that cost more in energy to produce than we get from it. Second of all, we are paying taxes to subsidise farmers to produce corn for ethanol.

If you were being paid to produce corn for the government with a guaranteed paycheck, would you do it? And what do you think would happen? Either farmers will have to pay more for corn to feed our food sources like beef, pork and chicken or cut back on the livestock. What happens next? Prices for food starts to go up because there is less livestock being raised by the farmers and ranchers.

Of course this affects the cost of milk too because... why? Corn costs more! And for what? A really inefficient alternative for oil... Hmmm, something's wrong here.

Mick O.