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GOOD MORNING FLINT!
12/24/08
From My email Mr. Calder disagreed with one of my posts. His retort follows in full I just added some spaces for readability.My commentas are in CAPS or within [ ]

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first_name: Christopherlast_name: Calderday_phone: 541-345-6372



HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM!
problem:
Your essay on biofuels was full on falsehood. Barack Obama had the choice of ending the world food crisis and saving millions of lives, or continuing biofuel production, which shrinks the human food supply by displacing normal agricultural activity.
OPINIOS ARE VERY DEMOCRATIC, EVERYBODY HAS ONE
Even though biofuels have proven to be an energy drain rather than an energy source, and a serious ecological disaster as well, Barack Obama still chose to make ethanol manufacturers rich by continuing his unnecessary war on our global food supply security.
OBAMA IS NOT PRESIDENT YET AND THE CONSPIRACY THEORIST ARE CRAWLING OUT
Obama's new plan to infect American farmland with invasive biofuel weeds (switchgrass, etc.) is a deadly plot that a villain in a James Bond movie might hatch. Looking at United Nations figures on worldwide malnutrition deaths, it is reasonable to estimate that global biofuel production was the predominate cause of at least 2 million avoidable deaths due to malnutrition and related illness in the past 12 months, and was a significant contributing factor in the deaths of up to 20 million people in the past 12 months. Even back in the year 2005, over 16,000 children died from hunger-related causes every day.
SEE ABOVE HE IS NOT PRESIDENT , YET GEORGE BUSH IS
The rate of malnutrition deaths has risen dramatically since then, as Barack Obama and other biofuel advocates have increased the cost of basic grains by at least 50%, and are responsible for approximately 30% of overall food cost inflation during the last 4 years.
ANOTHER LEAP OF LOGIC
Experts disagree as to exactly how many people Mao Tse-tung killed through starvation with his foolish 1958 "Great Leap Forward" 5 year plan. Did Mao kill 14 million people or 40 million people?
SEE ABOVE
Exact numbers of starvation deaths are impossible to fix, but it is clear that Obama's biofuel hoax has already killed more people globally than George Bush has killed with his war in Iraq. Obama wants to continue turning millions of acres of farmland into fuel-land, thus reducing the food growing capacity of the United States and continuing to drive up the cost of fertilizer.
OBAMA WON BECAUSE HE WAS THE BETTER PERSON
Barack Obama won the 2008 election by courting the Midwest biofuel industry and farm vote, and he adamantly pushes the false hope of biofuels even though he has been informed that dedicating America's entire 300 million acres of cropland to biofuel production would only satisfy about 15% of U.S. highway fuel demand.

NOW TO THE REAL POINT THE WRIETR DOES NOT LIKE CHU
It is distressing that Barack Obama has appointed a biofuel advocate, Professor Steven Chu, as our new secretary of Energy. The problem is not limited to ethanol from corn driving up grain and fertilizer prices. Biodiesel production from soybeans and rapeseed has driven up the price of cooking oil all over the world, starving Third World families while self-deluded "green" Americans burn edible cooking oil in their trucks and automobiles. It takes 9,000 gallons of water to produce just 1 gallon of biodiesel made from soybeans, so we obviously need to save our very limited supplies of ground water to grow food, not fuel.
THIS GUY THINKS OBAMA IS CAUSING THE CALIFORNIA WATER SHORTAGE
In California water is now so precious that some farmers want to sell water instead of food. Even without biofuel production, we are turning vast areas of land into desert every year through loss of topsoil due to farming for essential food.
WRITERS LIKE THIS OFTEN HAVE AN INTERESTING SCIENTIC BASE OF THOUGHT THOUGH MISAPPLIED.ZEALOUS THIS GUY IS.
Biofuel zealots claim they want to produce ethanol from cellulose instead of food, but a study from three agricultural economists at Iowa State University with insider information on the latest biofuel technology states that ethanol made from cellulose will likely never be affordable. SEE study at:http://www.card.iastate.edu/publications/DBS/PDFFiles/08wp460.pdf
Switchgrass, crop waste, and wood chip biofuel schemes are too expensive to ever work.Here are the dismal energy efficiency calculations for switchgrass-ethanol production provided by UC Berkeley scientist, Professor Tad W. Patzek."Mass and energy balances of the switchgrass-ethanol cycle" - http://petroleum.berkeley.edu/papers/Biofuels/TWSwitchgrass.pdf"
THE MAN JUST DOES NOT LIKE BIOFUEL, WHERE IS GONZALES WHEN WE NEED HIM TO ANSWER THIS GUY.
Biofuels are for people who think that 2 plus 2 equals 22." - Professor Tad W. Patzek "There is just no energy benefit to using plant biomass for liquid fuel. These strategies are not sustainable." - David Pimentel, professor of ecology and agriculture at Cornell University "It would be morally wrong to divert cropland needed for human food supply to powering automobiles. It would also deplete soil fertility and the long-term capability to maintain food production. We would destroy the farmland that our grandchildren and their grandchildren will need to live." - Professors James Jordan and James Powell, Maglev Research Center at Polytechnic University of New York. SEE - The False Hope of Biofuels - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/30/AR2006063001480_pf.html

As the Princeton study published in SCIENCE showed that all biofuels are far worse for the environment and global warming than using ordinary gasoline, biofuel advocates have little cover to hide behind. SEE - http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1151861Switchgrass and other biofuel weeds will be grown by ordinary, profit motive driven farmers, not by environmentally trained scientists.
Farmers will grow switchgrass on land that could be used to grow corn, wheat, or soybeans, and farmers will want to maximize yield, so they will use lots of fertilizer to increase output.
The plans biofuel idealists are now trying to sell the American public will never produce the kind of "green," food friendly energy source they promise.
THIS IS HAPPENING IN AFRICA, THE GOY IS NOT ALL WRONG
Biofuels displace food production, as our tiny overpopulated planet does not have enough usable land, water, or fertilizer to grow both food and fuel.
Few science fiction movie fans can forget the 1963 movie, The Day of the Triffids, which told a grim tale of carnivorous weeds taking over the earth. Barack Obama wants to plant millions of acres of invasive biofuel weeds on U.S. farmland, thus taking that land out of food production. Imagine the difficulty we will face when we inevitably realize that weed based biofuels are also a tragic mistake.
TRIFFID OF CHOICE, BELLY UP TO THE BAR BOYS
Switchgrass, Barack Obama's Triffid of choice, has very deep roots and is difficult to get rid of once it has been planted. Future newspaper headlines will tell of the high cost eradicating the biofuel weeds, which include water hungry giant reed and toxic jatrophra. Jatropha is being planted in poor tropical countries to turn its poisonous seeds into biodiesel, and it is even more difficult to eradicate than switchgrass.
The planting of millions of acres of jatrophra in Burma, India, Indonesia, and the desperately poor nations of Africa could destroy the value of the tropical lands for food production and wildlife habitat for centuries to come.
Biofuels have been condemned by United Nations food officials, Oxfam, and poverty fighting groups around the world. Planting biofuel weeds is just another way to destroy the food production capacity of our overpopulated little planet.
The fact that biofuel production speeds global warming, causes water shortages and water pollution, drives up the price of fertilizer, and erodes vital topsoil is ignored by biofuel propagandists. Their attempts to replace the massive stored energy of fossil fuels with the tiny energy of biofuels shows a lack of understanding of basic mathematics and science. Every year the human race burns up the equivalent of 400 years' worth of total planetary vegetation in the condensed form of fossil fuels.
The one and only energy source that is large enough in volume to replace all of that massive stored energy is nuclear power. The mass of an atom is in its nucleus, not in its electrons, and as E=MC2 the nucleus is where the really BIG energy is stored.
The tiny energy created by bonding and unbonding electrons through chemical reactions in the growth of vegetation must be amplified over centuries by the slow process of fossilization in order to make that inherently small energy strong enough to run an industrialized, heavily populated planet. Solar and wind power can help us a little, but those diffuse energy sources are far too weak and fluctuating to satisfy the bulk of our energy needs unless we want to revert to a horse and buggy economy and intentionally kill off the majority of the earth's human population.
Human beings can eventually replace fossil fuel energy by creating an infrastructure based on nuclear power, improved electric car battery technology, and the use of new technology to make superior quality, sulfur free gasoline and jet fuel from atmospheric carbon dioxide in a new process called Green Freedom. This new energy scheme is cheaper and more practical than using hydrogen as fuel because it is completely compatible with current vehicles and our existing energy distribution infrastructure.
Using nuclear fuel reprocessing and adding abundant thorium as fuel, we have enough nuclear materials to last for over 10,000 years. An essentially endless supply of carbon neutral gasoline is possible if we start facing reality and stop trying to sell the public phony biofuel schemes that are mathematically impossible.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/science/19carb.html?_r=2&oref=slogin - news story http://www.lanl.gov/news/newsbulletin/pdf/Green_Freedom_Overview.pdf - Green Freedom pdf Barack Obama is now surrounded by many pseudo-environmentalists who want to force all Americans to become vegetarians who only eat organic food that is grown in their own neighborhood. These childish and decadent people, who have never been hungry a day in their lives, will drive up the price of food so high through impossible regulations and new taxes on food production that the current global famine will get even worse.
They even want to tax farm animal flatulence as part of a carbon tax scheme that will put American beef and chicken farmers out of business. Mao Tse-tung and Pol Pot killed the most people through well meaning, idealistic agricultural policies, not through executions.
If you get both food and fuel policies dead wrong you will destroy the nation, and that is what Barack Obama is going to do unless he stops thinking politically and idealistically and starts thinking scientifically and realistically.
It is everyone's moral obligation to explain to Barack Obama all the terrible harm he has done by supporting biofuel production, and urge him to reverse course immediately. For more information and better energy alternatives, see my page on the biofuel disaster at -http://home.att.net/~meditation/bio-fuel-hoax.htmlChristopher Calder (Democrat - food security advocate)Not written but Posted here by
Terry Bankert

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