How To Help The Starving Children Of The Corn
April 29, 2008, 8:25pm
A Senate Republican committee leader today blamed an ongoing global food crisis on “decades of misguided environmental and energy policies.”
James Inhofe of Oklahoma, the top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, said worldwide access to food is declining and prices are skyrocketing because of meddling politicians bureaucrats in Washington who have been afraid of expanding energy supplies.
Current policy that has led to the consumption of more corn as ethanol-based fuel rather than as food “has skewed common sense and has violated the principles of a sound energy policy,” Inhofe said on the Senate floor.
He urged Congress to revisit its December 2007 biofuel mandate and admit that it made a mistake by implementing it, and he said the Environmental Protection Agency should review its statutory options to relieve the impact of the mandate.
Categories: Oklahoma, James Inhofe, Agriculture, Environment, Energy, Foreign Affairs
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