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Aurora
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 Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 6:39 am Post subject: The Corn Ultimatum |
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| Quote: | Climate Progress - 24/02/11
Bill Clinton warns: Too much ethanol could lead to food riots
I am not a fan of our corn ethanol policy as I made clear made clear during the last food crisis (see “The Fuel on the Hill” and “Can words describe how bad corn ethanol is?” and “Let them eat biofuels!“). In a world of blatantly increasing food insecurity — driven by population, dietary trends, rising oil prices, and growing climate instability — America’s policy of burning one third of our corn crop in our engines (soon to be 37% or more) is becoming increasingly untenable, if not unconscionable.
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An American politician with a conscience! Must be unique. But then he's not a politician any more is he, he's retired.
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