Let's starve people so we can save the planet

A liberal rag sister to the NY Times, The Boston Globe, has an editorial on the effects of ethanol.

Excerpt

CORN should be used for food, not motor fuel, and yet the United States is committed to a policy that encourages farmers to turn an increasing amount of their crop into ethanol. This may save the nation a bit of the cost of imported oil, but it increases global-warming gases and contributes to higher food prices.

Candidates for president need to tell Americans the truth about ethanol, but they are falling over themselves in pursuit of the farm belt vote. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton want more ethanol factories built than even President Bush envisaged when he called for 15 percent of US gasoline consumption to be replaced by alternative fuels by 2017. John McCain, who correctly called the ethanol push a boondoggle in 2000, now says that it is "a very important way to achieve energy independence."

Ethanol consumes almost a quarter of US corn production. The energy self-sufficiency that all the candidates seek should not come at the expense of the environment or the food supply.

How does Al Gore look at himself in the mirror knowing that based on this phony global warming mythology, innocent people may starve because they can't purchase grain?

Probably the same way he curls up into his bed nestled in the middle of his 10,000 square foot home.