Food For Fuel

AAA and I have long written about some of the problems with corn based ethanol. Over a YEAR ago, I wrote about the tortilla shortages in Mexico. The shortages have finally gotten so bad that the UN talking about stepping in. Yet our Governor insists on boosting our corn ethanol mandates! Well I hope all of the corn ethanol acolytes are happy seeing this.

For most Americans, the rising prices at the supermarket are definitely an annoyance, but hardly a threat to life and health. It's a different story in countries like Haiti, where food inflation has led to real hunger and, last week, to riots.
News reports say the poorest Haitians are trying to get by on cookies made with dirt, vegetable oil and salt. Food riots also have roiled Egypt and led to a general strike in Burkina Faso in West Africa. The high cost of corn, wheat, soybeans and other basics of the world's diet could soon start bringing down governments.

Emphasis mine.

I am all for finding alternative fuel sources. However, not at the cost of the poorest of the poor in the world. We need to quit burning food in our cars....it's that simple.