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Teach your children well... (OT)

Posted By: Caryl Stephanson
Date: Wednesday, 23 April 2008, at 7:09 p.m.

In Response To: Teach your children well... (OT) (Chuck Bower)

"A bigger (and justified, IMO) target is the conversion of grain to alcohol or diesel for use as fuel, which is inefficient, actually currently uses fossil fuels in its processing, wouldn't be cost effective if not for government subsidies (to the manufacturers -- it's not given directly to farmers, BTW), and diverts an otherwise very useful and necessary item (food) away from its more approrpiate use."

Yes and with the current strain on food prices worldwide, diverting food resources is not the answer in my opinion. I have seen the price of chicken almost double in the last 18 months or so.

And it's worse elsewhere.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080423/ap_on_re_eu/world_food_crisis;_ylt=AoeBs70fyb4kYYUkuRAQRo1vaA8F

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• Teach your children well... (OT)
  Chuck Bower -- Wednesday, 23 April 2008, at 3:01 p.m.
  • Teach your children well... (OT)
    Bill Riles -- Wednesday, 23 April 2008, at 3:33 p.m.
    • Global warming
      Tom Keith -- Wednesday, 23 April 2008, at 4:37 p.m.
      • Y2K and Warming
        mamabear -- Thursday, 24 April 2008, at 12:28 a.m.
        • Y2K and Warming
          Matt Cohn-Geier -- Thursday, 24 April 2008, at 4:45 a.m.
          • Y2K and Warming
            mamabear -- Thursday, 24 April 2008, at 11:36 a.m.
            • Y2K and Warming
              Keene -- Thursday, 24 April 2008, at 4:15 p.m.
              • Y2K and Warming
                Bill Riles -- Thursday, 24 April 2008, at 4:30 p.m.
                • Y2K and Warming
                  Daniel Murphy -- Friday, 25 April 2008, at 2:05 p.m.
                  • Y2K and Warming
                    mamabear -- Friday, 25 April 2008, at 8:12 p.m.
                  • Y2K and Warming
                    Chuck Bower -- Friday, 25 April 2008, at 9:03 p.m.
                    • Y2K and Warming
                      Daniel Murphy -- Saturday, 26 April 2008, at 12:39 a.m.
            • Y2K and Warming
              Keene -- Thursday, 24 April 2008, at 4:20 p.m.
            • Y2K and Warming
              Matt Cohn-Geier -- Friday, 25 April 2008, at 8:16 a.m.
            • Y2K and Warming
              Marty Storer -- Friday, 25 April 2008, at 12:43 p.m.
      • Global warming
        Barry Murphy -- Thursday, 24 April 2008, at 10:29 a.m.
        • CFC's-where are the real environmentalists?
          happyjuggler0 -- Thursday, 24 April 2008, at 4:18 p.m.
          • CFC's-where are the real environmentalists?
            Keene -- Thursday, 24 April 2008, at 4:22 p.m.
          • A relevant Freudian slip!
            Chuck Bower -- Thursday, 24 April 2008, at 4:35 p.m.
            • A relevant Freudian slip!
              happyjuggler0 -- Thursday, 24 April 2008, at 4:41 p.m.
            • A relevant Freudian slip!
              Barry Murphy -- Friday, 25 April 2008, at 9:12 p.m.
        • Global warming
          happyjuggler0 -- Thursday, 24 April 2008, at 7:11 p.m.
          • Global warming
            Barry Murphy -- Friday, 25 April 2008, at 9:14 p.m.
    • Teach your children well... (OT)
      Chuck Bower -- Wednesday, 23 April 2008, at 5:04 p.m.
      • Teach your children well... (OT)
        Bill Riles -- Wednesday, 23 April 2008, at 5:42 p.m.
      • Teach your children well... (OT)
        Caryl Stephanson -- Wednesday, 23 April 2008, at 7:09 p.m.
        • Teach your children well... (OT)
          Marty Storer -- Friday, 25 April 2008, at 12:48 p.m.
          • Teach your children well... (OT)
            happyjuggler0 -- Friday, 25 April 2008, at 4:03 p.m.
        • food and potable water
          Caryl Stephanson -- Friday, 25 April 2008, at 4:17 p.m.
      • Teach your children well... (OT)
        Daniel Murphy -- Sunday, 8 June 2008, at 2:26 a.m.
        • Though we had agreed.
          Bill Riles -- Sunday, 8 June 2008, at 2:55 p.m.
          • Though we had agreed.
            Daniel Murphy -- Sunday, 8 June 2008, at 6:27 p.m.
            • Though we had agreed.
              Bill Riles -- Sunday, 8 June 2008, at 7:58 p.m.
              • How about them Celts?
                Daniel Murphy -- Monday, 9 June 2008, at 1:14 p.m.
                • How about them Celts?
                  Tom Keith -- Monday, 9 June 2008, at 5:33 p.m.
            • Though we had agreed.
              Stick -- Monday, 9 June 2008, at 12:20 p.m.
          • Though we had agreed.
            Caryl Stephanson -- Monday, 9 June 2008, at 3:09 a.m.
          • Political?
            Chuck Bower -- Monday, 9 June 2008, at 4:36 p.m.
            • Political?
              Bill Riles -- Monday, 9 June 2008, at 5:29 p.m.
              • Not political?
                Caryl Stephanson -- Monday, 9 June 2008, at 7:44 p.m.
                • Not political?
                  Bill Riles -- Monday, 9 June 2008, at 8:34 p.m.
              • Political?
                Chuck Bower -- Monday, 9 June 2008, at 10:07 p.m.
                • Political?
                  Matt Reklaitis -- Monday, 9 June 2008, at 10:49 p.m.
                  • Political?
                    Bill Riles -- Monday, 9 June 2008, at 11:05 p.m.
                • Political?
                  Bill Riles -- Monday, 9 June 2008, at 11:21 p.m.
                  • Political?
                    Chuck Bower -- Tuesday, 10 June 2008, at 1:26 p.m.
              • Political?
                John O'Hagan -- Tuesday, 10 June 2008, at 2:44 a.m.
                • Political?
                  Tom Keith -- Tuesday, 10 June 2008, at 11:39 a.m.
  • Teach your children well... (OT)
    happyjuggler0 -- Wednesday, 23 April 2008, at 4:14 p.m.
  • More alarming than I thought...
    Chuck Bower -- Thursday, 24 April 2008, at 4:28 p.m.
    • Clarity please...
      rummer1973 -- Thursday, 24 April 2008, at 7:33 p.m.
      • Let's get started
        Chuck Bower -- Thursday, 24 April 2008, at 9:31 p.m.
      • Part II
        Chuck Bower -- Friday, 25 April 2008, at 9:29 p.m.
    • More alarming than I thought...
      DC-Ohio -- Friday, 25 April 2008, at 2:21 a.m.
      • More alarming than I thought...
        Chuck Bower -- Friday, 25 April 2008, at 1:26 p.m.
        • More alarming than I thought...
          Caryl Stephanson -- Friday, 25 April 2008, at 4:19 p.m.
        • More alarming than I thought...
          DC-Ohio -- Friday, 25 April 2008, at 5:43 p.m.
          • More alarming than I thought...
            Chuck Bower -- Friday, 25 April 2008, at 9:33 p.m.