Biofuels no magic solution to immigration crisis

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) just announced that a 75 percent rise in worldwide food prices since 2000  has caused new outbreaks of famine in foreign cities, where food is widely available but poor residents can no longer afford the increased prices.  A reported 25,000 Indian farmers committed suicide in 2007 over food shortages and debts, despite India' image as a model for globalist development.

The WFP said that biofuel production could make the situation worse by diverting production and increasing prices. Rising oil prices have caused fertilizer costs, which account for 25 percent of U.S. agricultural costs, to rise more than 150 percent in the past five years. Meanwhile, an area of fertile soil the size of the Ukraine is disappearing each year because of drought, deforestation and sprawl.

Analysts are beginning to recognize that subsidized biofuel production, of ethanol in particular, is THE root cause of higher retail food prices in the US, and  is contributing to “chronic hunger, malnutrition and starvation” in the poverty-stricken nations of Africa and Southeast Asia.

The United States cannot solve the problem of mushrooming overseas DEMAND for energy and foodstocks. The 120 thousand new immigrants who settle in the U.S. EVERY MONTH from overcrowded foreign nations will increasingly impoverish the native working and middle-income citizenry, as food and fuel prices continue to rise.

We cannot invent our way out of this crisis; we have only two realistic options:  Slash immigration to sustainable levels, or slash the standard of living for all Americans except the very rich.  Maryland is tragically taking the second course.