Why does Al Gore want to turn food (which starving people need to live) into gas for our cars?

Question

My family grows corn and soybeans and are reaping the profits from Al's E85 plan, but even an idiot knows that biofuel production is driving up food prices. Glad I don't live in Africa.

Answer 1

Ethanol has been a bad idea from its inception where it can’t sell itself or be marketed without the government subsidy. The growing season for corn is not year round in many places, and it is vulnerable to inclement weather and flooding as is happing now along the Mississippi now.

Prices in the supermarket have skyrocketed in the last 6 months, and ethanol is a big part of the blame. Instead of relying on foreign imported oil, and bio-fuels made from corn we could instead start drilling our own oil as proposed by President Bush today. His proposal is much more sound economically then anything the Democrats can conjure up.

Answer 2

because of money! think about that then email me if you need to!

Answer 3

I was hoping he'd be more into using natural gas as a fuel. We have lots of it and it's cheap and better for the environment, plus it doesn't take food out of anybody's mouth. We already have the technology - I own 2 cars that run on natural gas and they were made in the factory by Ford in 1999 and 2000. We just need some better infrastructure as far as refueling is concerned, because not every state has caught on to this idea. That's my 2 cents...

Answer 4

ya thats what many have beens saying for years.

Answer 5

Ethanol subsidies are not really a relevant argument right now... Meaning, with sweet crude at > $135 per barrel, supplementing with a "cheaper" ethanol source would happen no matter what.  It is just simple economics....

Answer 6

because we need alternatives to fuel our cars and it's better for the enviroment dilrod.  duh.

Answer 7

Ignoring the fact that we don't send corn to Africa...

The main proponent of corn-based ethanol is George Bush.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/...

Here is what Gore says about it:

AL GORE: "Well, I think that corn ethanol is at best a transition strategy toward the new generation of biofuels that don't compete with food crops at all. There is a sophisticated debate about why the food price crisis has suddenly blown up in the world. The drought in Australia, connected to global warming in the view of many, took the largest grain flows out of the world markets, and that touched off some protectionist measures with countries hoarding grain. And the introduction of leverage or speculation in commodities has had a lot to do with it as well. But there's no doubt that, at least on the margins, the amounts of corn being used for ethanol have had some impact.

But there's a major debate on how to go about this in an environmentally and economically sensible way. And I think that's a useful debate. Most people come out, when they really look at all the facts, by saying, look, some of these fuels are bad and some of them are good. We shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Let's concentrate on developing the next generation that have positive consequences."

http://planetgore.nationalreview.com/pos...

I think that's reasonable.

Answer 8

There is a million aspects wrong to your question.

Are you referring to ethanol?

Answer me this then, are you sending your corn to Africa?

In Africa, which is a continent, is Egypt a "starving" nation?

The prices of food are already surging, none the less impacted by BIOFUEL.

There are SO many types of biofuel, so stop generalizing.

Now, if 90% of American used biofuel, maybe.

Can you come up with a better alternative to fuel?

Yeah, thought you couldn't.

But go on, you voted for Bush.

You must be rather intelligent.

JOHN DEERE FOR LIFE!

Oh, but I do hate Al Gore. He tries to take credit for everything.

Answer 9

Prove where he said it, and I will tell you why!

Don't post lies!

Anyway first generation bio fuel is a bad system, the 2nd generation made from algae is much better.  It grows on non crop land and you cant eat it.

Please provide a real question and not a straw man argument.

Answer 10

Al Gore really does not have a grasp of the environmental impact that corn etc as biofuels are having on a global scale.  

It requires large amounts of energy to process the corn into biofuel.

Biofuel should not even be considered as an alternative source.