Food vs. Fuel?

Question

what do you say is more important and why?

if you have any link i will appreciate it

Answer 1

I had this debate at the pump yesterday, Sourdough jack or enough gas to make it home. It was a tough call and I ended up pushing my car about 10 miles! j/k I payed the ridiculous $4 for a gallon!

Answer 2

If I had to choose between either food or fuel, I would choose food, being the reasonable person that I am. Fortunately, you, I and everyone else can have both. The Food vs Fuel argument is useless. Using food crops to make fuel does not destroy the food. Please also note that when I say "biofuels" I am referring to plant oil, NOT ethanol which is better used in drinks than as a fuel.

Please see this thread I started: http://biodiesel.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a...

Answer 3

Food.  The World Health Organization estimates that 600,000 people will starve to death this year due to food shortages, so we can put fuel in our SUVs.

Answer 4

food is more important than fuel...

pople lived without fuel before but you can never live without food

Answer 5

You don't have to choose - with ethanol you get both.  Some of the by-products of ethanol production are animal feed, corn syrup and carbon dioxide.  You could have a soda pop plant next to an ethanol plant and have carbonation and sweetener right next door.  

A big ice cream plant in Iowa gets its corn syrup from ethanol plants.  and throughout the midwest cattle still eat the corn that is left over after ethanol production.  that corn-fed beef is still corn-fed.

from website:  http://goefuel.com/facts/mythbusters.htm...

Myth: Ethanol production wastes corn that could be used for food.

Fact: In 2001, U.S. farmers produced 9.5 billion bushels of corn and only 600 million bushels are currently used in ethanol production. Fact is, there's no shortage of corn, and the ethanol market could expand significantly without negatively impacting its availability. Besides, ethanol production uses field corn, most of which is fed to livestock, not humans. Only the starch portion of the corn kernel is used to produce ethanol. The vitamins, minerals, proteins and fiber are converted to other products such as sweeteners, corn oil and high-value livestock feed, which helps livestock producers add to the overall food supply.

Answer 6

To me, food is more important. true fuel is required to get the food to you in most cases today, but that sort of falls under mass transportation. I don't have to drive to get my food or go as many places.

I have one really big question about fuel prices....The USA imports MOST of its oil from Canada. Why do they base the price of oil on eastern oil. Oil from Canada is piped in to the few operating refineries in the USA. Much of the oil is refined into fuel and transported into the USA where it is sold for LESS than consumers pay for it in Canada.  Last Friday I was told they are paying $1.21 per liter...multiply that by 3.85 liters per gallon. The Canadian dollar is at par now with the inflated US dollar.

Ontario Canada has built several new refineries for both oil and alternative fuels in the last few years. The USA has not for over a decade!

The oil companies are just bilking everyone because they can and the government is allowing it because of kick backs they get from the oil companies! Think about this when you go vote this coming general election!

Answer 7

Corn causes Cancer in animals and humans.So it should be for fuel only.

Answer 8

Bullshit. I would like to send Hugo Chavez to the h**l.

Answer 9

I would say food but the 'Green People' thinks alternate fuels made from corn and soybeans is more important than eating.

Answer 10

Fuel. Otherwise how can I drive round and pick up trashy women?