<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Notable quotable]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by wesrolley http://www.grist.org/article/notable-quotable22/ Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:46:50 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/notable-quotable22/1 Bartlett may have something right.

The Financial Times reported on 12/11/2007 that the effects of rising prices and grain shortages are being felt on the world markets. The global economy is facing a second wave of food inflation after the US agriculture department on Tuesday warned of significant falls in stocks of corn, wheat and soyabean and heavy demand.

Officials forecast US wheat stocks would shrink to their lowest level in 60 years, dropping from 312m bushels to 280m by the end of the 2007-08 crop year. Take a look at every packaged food you pick up and see how many contain "high fructose corn syrup".  We will pay for this new energy bill in the grocery store.

We may not have the time for incremental gains in one area (CAFE) when we give them back in others. This is yet another reasons that I firmly believe that there needs to be an alternative to corporate Democrats that is not spelled "Republican."

Wes Rolley CoChair - EcoAction Committee Green Party US

]]> Bartlett may have something right.

The Financial Times reported on 12/11/2007 that the effects of rising prices and grain shortages are being felt on the world markets. The global economy is facing a second wave of food inflation after the US agriculture department on Tuesday warned of significant falls in stocks of corn, wheat and soyabean and heavy demand.

Officials forecast US wheat stocks would shrink to their lowest level in 60 years, dropping from 312m bushels to 280m by the end of the 2007-08 crop year. Take a look at every packaged food you pick up and see how many contain "high fructose corn syrup".  We will pay for this new energy bill in the grocery store.

We may not have the time for incremental gains in one area (CAFE) when we give them back in others. This is yet another reasons that I firmly believe that there needs to be an alternative to corporate Democrats that is not spelled "Republican."

Wes Rolley CoChair - EcoAction Committee Green Party US

]]> Comment #2 by Ekirky http://www.grist.org/article/notable-quotable22/ Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:41:59 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/notable-quotable22/2 it's ironic....

Cheap corn has wreaked havoc on our society: it helped create the obesity epidemic and the diabetes epidemic, it helped create the world of processed food, it helped to feed the growth of fast food chains and supermarkets and, with them, the growth of strip malls and sprawling suburbs. (Quick plug: everyone should watch the movie King Corn. Google it. It's awesome.)
So any increase in the price of corn would seem like a very good thing...
and yet ethanol is dumb on so many levels.
Short-sighted government policy created our corn surplus in the first place, at great enviornmental and societal cost. Now short-sighted government policy is going to dispose of that surplus in the dumbest possible way.
ARGGHHH.



]]> it's ironic....

Cheap corn has wreaked havoc on our society: it helped create the obesity epidemic and the diabetes epidemic, it helped create the world of processed food, it helped to feed the growth of fast food chains and supermarkets and, with them, the growth of strip malls and sprawling suburbs. (Quick plug: everyone should watch the movie King Corn. Google it. It's awesome.)
So any increase in the price of corn would seem like a very good thing...
and yet ethanol is dumb on so many levels.
Short-sighted government policy created our corn surplus in the first place, at great enviornmental and societal cost. Now short-sighted government policy is going to dispose of that surplus in the dumbest possible way.
ARGGHHH.



]]> Comment #3 by Ron Steenblik http://www.grist.org/article/notable-quotable22/ Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:55:43 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/notable-quotable22/3 Well put, Ekirky

How refreshing to learn of a member of Congress with backbone.

]]> Well put, Ekirky

How refreshing to learn of a member of Congress with backbone.

]]> Comment #4 by bookerly http://www.grist.org/article/notable-quotable22/ Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:58:26 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/notable-quotable22/4 Bravo!!!


   Congrats to Congressman Bartlett!!  I will tell my parents that a Republican has said something I agree with!!

    Shame on those in both parties who have sold us out for their pockets full of gold (campaign gold that is!).

patrick in Beijing

]]> Bravo!!!


   Congrats to Congressman Bartlett!!  I will tell my parents that a Republican has said something I agree with!!

    Shame on those in both parties who have sold us out for their pockets full of gold (campaign gold that is!).

patrick in Beijing

]]> Comment #5 by bookerly http://www.grist.org/article/notable-quotable22/ Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:06:14 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/notable-quotable22/5 And A link

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/17/europe/food.php

    Ethanol will kill the poor.

patrick in Beijing

]]> And A link

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/17/europe/food.php

    Ethanol will kill the poor.

patrick in Beijing

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