Comments on: The Enemy is Hunger: Rome Conference http://politicook.net/2008/06/05/the-enemy-is-hunger-rome-conference/ Food for the Progressive Soul Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:49:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Asinus Asinum Fricat http://politicook.net/2008/06/05/the-enemy-is-hunger-rome-conference/comment-page-1/#comment-3708 Asinus Asinum Fricat Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:09:44 +0000 http://politicook.net/2008/06/05/the-enemy-is-hunger-rome-conference/#comment-3708 Ethanol from corn is a stupid financial proposition, as you know. Ethanol from sugar cane is another story: better yields, yes, but it also means deforestation en masse, and that is wrong, very wrong. Ethanol from corn is a stupid financial proposition, as you know. Ethanol from sugar cane is another story: better yields, yes, but it also means deforestation en masse, and that is wrong, very wrong.

]]> By: Anne Hawley http://politicook.net/2008/06/05/the-enemy-is-hunger-rome-conference/comment-page-1/#comment-3707 Anne Hawley Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:54:20 +0000 http://politicook.net/2008/06/05/the-enemy-is-hunger-rome-conference/#comment-3707 In an interesting coincidence, I just last night came to the episode of "The West Wing" (in my niece's and my long march through the entire series) called "King Corn." The story centers on the candidates for the next presidential election, and we see each of the leading Democratic contenders make a commitment to ethanol. They call it "taking the pledge" and every one of them knows ethanol is a huge scam. Figures are cited about how a gallon of ethanol costs a gallon of petroleum to produce. Only one candidate dares to oppose ethanol while campaigning in Iowa: the Republican frontrunner. Well, it's a fantasy show. But it made the ethanol problem very, very clear. In an interesting coincidence, I just last night came to the episode of “The West Wing” (in my niece’s and my long march through the entire series) called “King Corn.”

The story centers on the candidates for the next presidential election, and we see each of the leading Democratic contenders make a commitment to ethanol. They call it “taking the pledge” and every one of them knows ethanol is a huge scam. Figures are cited about how a gallon of ethanol costs a gallon of petroleum to produce.

Only one candidate dares to oppose ethanol while campaigning in Iowa: the Republican frontrunner.

Well, it’s a fantasy show. But it made the ethanol problem very, very clear.

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