The Idiots Are In Control

This little tidbit from the New York Sun:

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Many parts of America, long considered the breadbasket of the world, are now confronting a once unthinkable phenomenon: food rationing. Major retailers in New York, in areas of New England, and on the West Coast are limiting purchases of flour, rice, and cooking oil as demand outstrips supply. There are also anecdotal reports that some consumers are hoarding grain stocks.

Think ethanol. Farmers who once grew wheat have switched to growing corn, since the ethanol producers are paying such high prices for it. The remaining wheat is now in short supply and has more than doubled in price. Think rising food prices.

The total idiots who think that fuel from corn will be as good as fuel from sugar are witless morons. Sugar cane - as a raw material for fuel - yields ten times as much energy as corn. That's an undeniable and proven fact.

So the cretins who are pushing this ethanol from corn insanity have instead created a fuel that takes more energy to produce than it provides, have caused the price of corn and wheat to more than double, and have created a worldwide food shortage. It will only get worse.

For the clueless amongst us, the U. S. has been the world's major producer and supplier of wheat for generations, but no more. The wheat farmers are growing corn... so we can burn that incredibly inefficient bio-fuel in our cars.

And now, we hear the siren call for hydrogen fuel. However, it takes massive amounts of electricity to separate out hydrogen from the water it is in, which simply means massive amounts of coal and oil and natural gas will be required to provide the electricity.

Americans - by and large - are dumb... by design.