Christopher Calder wrote:
> It is distressing that Barack Obama is still talking about
> "alternative fuels" after all of the global suffering that biofuel
> production has created.  If you look at United Nations malnutrition
> statistics, and factor in the massive increases in grain prices that
> biofuel production has created, then any reasonable person must
> conclude that biofuels are the major cause of at least 2 million
> avoidable deaths due to malnutrition and related illness in the last
> twelve months, 

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ranting
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hyperbolic
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/screed

> By the time the
> biofuel hoax has run its full course, it will certainly have killed
> millions more than the number of Jews killed by Adolf Hitler during
> the 1940s. 

Godwin!


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 Raymond W. Arritt                              tel +1-515-294-9870
 Professor, Department of Agronomy              fax +1-515-294-2619
 3010 Agronomy Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa  50011   USA

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