The greatest threat to United States national security is biofuel production, not terrorism. Biofuels do not contribute to “energy independence.” Biofuel production contributes to high food prices, increased environmental damage, the speeding of global warming, erosion of precious topsoil, water shortages, and global hunger. Infecting millions of acres of US farmland with biofuel weeds is an evil plot worthy of a James Bond villain, not a positive new energy source.

Using United Nations poverty and hunger statistics as a base, it is reasonable to estimate that globally biofuel production was a significant contributing factor in the early, avoidable deaths of up to 20 million people in the year 2008. Any force, such as worldwide biofuel production or oil price hikes, that significantly raises food prices also raises the number of human deaths due to malnutrition. It is difficult for us to control the price of oil, but it is easy for us to control our own biofuel production; we just stop doing it! The one-two punch of biofuels crowding out food production and high oil prices raising the cost of almost everything is a deadly blow to the poor on a planetary scale. Over 4 billion of earth’s 6.75 billion human inhabitants live in poverty, yet our politicians decided to starve people in order to feed cars.

When you try to grow both fuel and food at the same time, you greatly increase the rate of topsoil erosion, because disturbing the land by tilling and harvesting makes soils vulnerable to wind and rain. Globally, topsoil is being lost ten times faster than it is being replenished, and 30% of the world’s arable land has become unproductive in the past 40 years due to erosion. The human race would quickly starve to death without topsoil, and the USA is in serious jeopardy of losing adequate food growing capacity within 100 years or less due to erosion. Biofuel production is helping clog the Mississippi and other rivers with topsoil from our prime growing areas. In 1850, Iowa prairie soils had about 12-16 inches of topsoil, but now have only about 6-8 inches. We are continuing to lose Iowa topsoil at a rate of approximately 30 tons of topsoil per hectare (10,000 square meters) per year. As it takes nature hundreds of years to replace just 1 inch of lost topsoil, ask biofuel advocates if helping to destroy the ability of future generations to grow food is a worthy environmental goal.

William Jaeger, an Oregon Science University agricultural economics professor, recently spoke out against biofuel production to the Oregon State Legislature stating:

“Given currently available technologies it is difficult to see the net contribution of biofuels rising above 1% of our current fossil fuel energy consumption – for either Oregon or the U.S.”

Jaeger found that none of the biofuels were marketable without large taxpayer subsidies, and the much hyped cellulosic ethanol was the most expensive of all the biofuels to produce.

SEE:

http://home.att.net/~meditation/bio-fuel-hoax.html