Lessons From Iowa
By
pparets
on June 18, 2008 at 04:51 am
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Given the frenzy of many to convert our energy supply to bio-fuels, there are some stark, hard lessons to be learned from the horrific flooding in Iowa.
Over one million acres of corn and two million acres of soybeans - equalling 20% of the Hawkeye State’s annual yield have been lost so far , and that number continues to rise daily… just in Iowa!
While we are facing a staggering loss of food for the nation’s belly, we may, in fact, be getting some nutrition for the brain.
It is difficult to imagine an industry - any industry - more vulnerable to the whims of nature than agriculture. Perhaps the biofuel crowd needs to sit down with pen and pencil and do the math.
If we were already converted to a biofuel economy, what kinds of disasters might we be facing at this very moment? Not guns or butter. But fuel or food! Starvation or stagnation!
If Iowa today was forested with wind-generators for electricity, those devices, along with everything else destroyed so far, would now be worthless scrap.
Meanwhile, what may be the world’s largest supply of untapped oil [and coal!] lies dormant and unharmed - free from the savage whims of Mother Nature - right under our very feet and off our coastlines.
Hysterical environmentalists constantly rant that we must not be allowed to destroy the environment, yet it would be hard to imagine how man could do greater damage to Iowa, or ANWR, or the ocean, than nature has just done to Iowans in one week, using only rain.
Food for thought.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/16/business/midwest.php
Over one million acres of corn and two million acres of soybeans - equalling 20% of the Hawkeye State’s annual yield have been lost so far , and that number continues to rise daily… just in Iowa!
While we are facing a staggering loss of food for the nation’s belly, we may, in fact, be getting some nutrition for the brain.
It is difficult to imagine an industry - any industry - more vulnerable to the whims of nature than agriculture. Perhaps the biofuel crowd needs to sit down with pen and pencil and do the math.
If we were already converted to a biofuel economy, what kinds of disasters might we be facing at this very moment? Not guns or butter. But fuel or food! Starvation or stagnation!
If Iowa today was forested with wind-generators for electricity, those devices, along with everything else destroyed so far, would now be worthless scrap.
Meanwhile, what may be the world’s largest supply of untapped oil [and coal!] lies dormant and unharmed - free from the savage whims of Mother Nature - right under our very feet and off our coastlines.
Hysterical environmentalists constantly rant that we must not be allowed to destroy the environment, yet it would be hard to imagine how man could do greater damage to Iowa, or ANWR, or the ocean, than nature has just done to Iowans in one week, using only rain.
Food for thought.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/16/business/midwest.php
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