Lightbulb Tea Party anyone? Sorry, we burnt the crumpets

FOXNews.com – A Lightbulb Tea Party? – Opinion: “Next, the new law doubles the use of ethanol, likely further distorting agricultural markets and driving up food prices. Animal feed costs are already up 20 percent this year, no doubt contributing to the 5 percent rise in consumer grocery prices.
More cropland dedicated to growing corn means less cropland for other important grains. In observing that its food-price index is higher today than at any time since it was created in 1845, The Economist on Dec. 8 noted that filling up an SUV’s tank with ethanol uses enough corn to feed a person for a year. Although current biofuel use already requires one-third of the U.S. corn crop, the new law mandates even more biofuels. This “commits the nation to decades of competition between food and fuel for the use of agricultural land,” observed the New York Times”

It is amazing how foolish we are for electing these loons to run our government. The higher costs of food brought about by this legislation will actually help bring starvation to the poorest people in the world. Not so long ago many preached that we would not be able to feed the growing world population. Now these same people will let politicians make food shortages a reality by legislating biofuels from food products. These same loons want to save a small fraction of one percent of energy by legislating CFL light bulbs that will pollute ground water all over the world with mercury. These people make one knee jerk mistake after another. Yet, we keep electing them to office. Which proves that we should not be electing lawyers and used car salesmen to become managers of anything. They are not qualified. It also proves how flim-flam-men and women still con most of the people most of the time.