Egypt’s Ethanol Revolution: Bad US Policy Driving Up Worldwide Food Prices

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Food riots may be a big part of the pro-Democracy push in Mid-Eastern countries like Tunisia and Egypt. But the root cause of spiking food prices is the US’s foolish ethanol policy – turning food into fuel. But because Gingrich, Sarah Palin, et al need to go through the meat grinder of the Iowa Caucuses next year, it looks like we’re going to keep turning food into foolishness.

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Pushing lies about California’s water projects

Boudin Island, Happy Harbor sunset on the California delta.

One of the most deceptive arguments used by agribusiness, southern California water agencies and the state and federal governments in their campaign to build the peripheral canal/tunnel on the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta is the myth of the Delta’s “fragile, earthquake-prone” levees. This narrative has been pushed forward by the water “experts” of the Public [...]