[G]rowing demand for biofuels in the U.S. is having a catastrophic impact on the small poor nations south of our border, such as Guatemala. – IBD

 

 

From IBD Editorials

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At what point does environmental zeal descend into inhumane policy? Try the ethanol mandate, which is now creating a wave of state-sponsored hunger in poor countries like Guatemala as food is diverted to fuel.

 

… has resulted in 44% of U.S. corn crops getting burned as fuel.

 

….. then prices shot up with the ethanol mandate. That law requires one-tenth of all U.S. gasoline to contain corn-based ethanol, offering distorted incentives to U.S. farmers to sell their corn at subsidized prices, leaving less for food.

 

As a result, corn prices have soared as much as 100% for Guatemalans, making corn not just expensive but out of reach for the impoverished population, which spends two-thirds of its money to buy food.

 

 

 

In reality, it’s a callous sign of a government agency so wedded to its green agenda it will rationalize any man-made famine or other unintended consequence of its policy for the sake of its environmental purity.

 

Stalin operated that way, and so did all the other global creators of hunger.

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Also please consider:

Suicidal fuel – corn ethanol driving up world food prices in drought

Time to end the mother of all corporate welfare: ethanol subsidies

 

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