Who Should Go There?

Observers of recent food riots have wondering who’ll be the environmental Marie Antoinette when the hyper-emotional, carbon footprint panic bites the asses of the global warmer community and a hungry public stands there with bloated bellies, scratching their mosquito-enclircled heads and wondering, “What the f**k?”

When the hungry people of the world become, uh, fed up, with the high cost of food, when they can’t buy enough food even if they have money to buy it and when they’re starving because there’s not enough food to be had, whose head should they chop off?

My pick — Al Gore, with Laurie David standing in the cutter’s deck.

It seems that the conversion of arable farm land from food to biofuel is reducing the supply and price of many edibles. The government is force-feeding ethanol production upon us, as inefficient a production process as wrapping toilet paper rolls by hand. Corn prices have doubled in the past few years and the poor in Mexico are finding their tortillas held hostage to the white, guilt-ridden, well fed, environmental loonies and zealots of the American and European radical left.

Instead of being grateful that they’ll have access to cheap biofuels for the cars they’re too poor to own, Mexicans are complaining that they’re too poor to afford tortillas. Jesus! How spoiled can people be? It’s not surprising then that they did the only thing a hungry people left for them to do and that’s to riot.

And riot they did, except for those who switched careers and started working for the drug industry, and I don’t mean diabetes pills.

Yo, looking for some carbon credits?

Food riots also erupted in Haiti, Morocco, Egypt, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mauritania, Cameroon, Senegal, Uzbekistan and Yemen. The riots may be effective, but they need a Marie Antoinette and a cadre of aristocrats to bump off before the climate change pimps will come to their senses. I doubt that’ll happen, though. There’s a lot of money to be made in CO2.

Riots haven’t yet occurred in Vietnam, Cambodia, India or Egypt, but these countries have all placed restrictions on their rice exports to drive down domestic prices. Pakistan has reinstated food rationing. Likewise, California. Stores like Costo and other supermarkets are rationing food products. Rice, corn and flour are scarce because …. hmmmm, what could be the reason for that?

Over Passover, Jews nationwide had difficulty locating kosher-for-Passover margarine. One reason for the shortage was the scarcity of cottonseed oil because some U.S. farmers have abandoned planting cotton for — you guessed it, corn, the price of which climbed to meet the needs of ethanol manufacturers. Who can blame the farmer for deserting one crop for a more profitable one?