Just thinning the herd.

Sincerely.

The Illuminati.

Soylent Green is the answer.

And, it will probably get worse in the near future too. With food competing with fuel for the same product, (So much for alternative fuels that come from food products huh???) we can probably expect to see much more of this in the future.

Then again, quite a few ethanol plants are shutting down or drastically reducing output and soy bio diesel plants are really struggling. I guess alternative fuels from these products are money makers as long as the price for the corn, soybeans and other food products remains low but, alas, the per bushel prices have gone up to where it is not productive so, the market place seems to be working.

Time will tell BUT, I expect more food riots to continue if raw products continue to compete with fuel for that product.

Don't laugh. Our dollar is heading towards worthlessness. It could happen here.

"Soylent Green... Made from the best stuff on Earth - People!"

Anyway, not good news. Food-based unrest could make Religious Fundamentalist Terrorists look like a handful of relatively harmless whackos.

"Frankly, I'm advising all my clients to put their money into canned food and shotguns."

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Food prices here in the U.S. have been rising 15-30% a year the last couple of years.

"Time will tell BUT, I expect more food riots to continue if raw products continue to compete with fuel for that product."
Posted by farmerjohn at 2008-04-04

YEAH!

Except no one is makin' fuel out of "wheat" and "rice"!

Fool!

And yet we are a nation of fat-asses.

Car manufacturers have to "Americanize" the seats of their Euro-brand imports for those whose (I paraphrase from somewhere) buns have turned to loaves.

Gotta love it.

Well for my part, I went out this week and bought various plants, lettuce, cabbage, onions, peppers, tomatoes and a bunch of seeds, more lettuce, raddish, beans, peas, cellary, spinach, mustard, carrots, you name it. If food is going to get that bad in price I am going to grow my own. I have done this in years past and have done really well, last year because of the drought I about lost everything and gave up. I am determined to try again this year.

PS) I didn't buy corn, cause it would appear that I am the only person in North Carolina that can't grow corn :(

That's what happens when people feed their cars with Corn. The ethanol plants using corn is a myth. E85 is nothing but a ploy for big oil.

Bring back the electric drive in cars! By powering a generator, batteries and super capacitor one can achieve great mileage and power.

These high gas prices are going to spur technology.

The I.C.E. is outdated and we need to find new ways the power our cars.

Corn ethanol. What a joke.

wait until this summer..food prices are just starting the upward spike due to oil prices and transport cost..


Corn is not going to food but fuel.

grow local, buy local.

Geez, where are you people from? It isn't this competing with that, although those are accelerating factors. It's population pressure competing with the ability of this plaet to provide sufficient food to feed the burgeoning populations. It puts the strain on various more vulnerable activities and places first.

The exporting nations are conserving their own food supplies by limiting exports. Previews of things to come.
This was inevitable.

The Islamics are proliferating as if its going out of style, some seven to eight kids or more per family in the ME. Provide them with anaphrodisiacs.

The Pope is inveighing against birth control. Fortunately his flock largely ignores him.

There is some hope in some areas. The Oriental preference for male children and the one-child per family limitation in China has been reported, perhaps accurately, to have resulted in 200,000,000 more men than women. These men cannot breed by themselves. So, the Chinese population should diminish significantly. But lack of women leads to unrest. They may need to introduce official prostitution or provide opiates to large sectors.

Damn, that's what happens when you burn your food in your car. Is that stupid or what?

The figure given will soon increase to 14 then 21 and just where this will end (besides wars) nobody knows.

Redneckville

Are you familiar with the term "grain alcohol"?

Virtually any organic matter can be fermented. The highest production of alcohol is sugar cane and I'd be willing to bet sugar beets.

Scotch whiskey is commonly made from barley and other cereal grains.

redneck is not concerned with facts.

redneck is not concerned with facts.

Posted by retnluvnit

You are a master at stating the obvious.

A surge in demand for biofuel has resulted in a sharp decline in agricultural land planted for food crops. About 16% of U.S. agricultural land formerly planted with soybeans and wheat is now growing corn for biofuel.

"For the first time in history, there is a clear link between the price of fuel and the price of food," Mr. Powell said.

So maybe it's not a good idea to grow our fuel after all. Thankfully there is the sun, there are waves, there are tides, and there is a lot of water in the oceans that can be turned into their base elements (that is Hydrogen and Oxygen).

Would that not help solve the cost of fuel problems along with having more land for food?

Think, if we spent 1 trillion dollars on plants that make hydrogen and oxygen from the oceans, we have an unexaustable fuel source.

redneck is not concerned with facts.
Posted by retnluvnit

You are a master at stating the obvious.
Posted by Sniper


Genuinely curious: can anybody tell me why Redneckville opens every post with the following:

"YEAH!"

Genuinely curious: can anybody tell me why Redneckville opens every post with the following...

He only does it after someone on the "right" posts something not well thought out.

YAV - I have to disagree: I just went to his posts and every single one begins with "YEAH!" Even this gem:


"On a winter break trip with his family to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, an 11-year-old southwestern Michigan boy noticed that a notation, in bold lettering, mistakenly identified the Precambrian as an era."

YEAH!

Imagine what would happen if he had visited the Creation Museum instead! I bet the kid would still be convulsing!

Posted by Redneckville at 2008-04-03 03:22 PM | Reply

I have to disagree: I just went to his posts and every single one begins with "YEAH!" Even this gem:

YEAH!

My post was a joke, sort of. . .

Still, so true. Sometimes he knows all too well the arguments that have already been made and will be made again. Of course you can read that same thread and find out how prescient he was.

In the church of evolution some people believe dinos are ancestors of eagle. As ridiculous as it can get!

Same thread, later on.

Spud's been foretelling this shiat for a long time now.

It's as obvious and as inevitable as global warming.

In fact, the two phenomenons are closely linked.

Global Warming reduces arable land.
Populations continue to increase.
Bio Mass continues to disappear.
Oil demand goes up along with prices.
Food becomes fuel in an effort to compensate.
Cost of transporting food long distances also rises.

It's just the tip of the iceberg here.

It hasn't started to get really ugly yet but it will.

** deep sigh **

Mostly Spud likes being right about stuff but some days?... Not so much.

Be Well.

"Soylent Green... Made from the best stuff on Earth - People!"

Spud watched Sweeney Todd last night.

Maybe we can set up a chain of Mrs Lovett's pie shops around the globe with a Demon Barbershop above.

Spud's modest proposal.

Be Well.