Say what you will about Boris Johnson, but he does proffer pragmatic solutions to problems.
With a pending global food shortage only looking worse by the day British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has proposed to use biofuel farmland to grow food that can be consumed by people.
German Chancellor Olaf Schulz is also supporting the plan. However, Joe Biden and Justin Trudeau have denounced the effort to expand food production in the U.S. and Canada and blocked the framework from G7 policy.
WASHINGTON – […] Mr Johnson will address G7 leaders at a summit in Germany and ask them to repurpose land currently used for crop-based biofuels to grow more food.
The Prime Minister believes using less green fuel would dampen soaring food prices and help avert famines in poorer countries that rely heavily on Ukrainian grain blockaded in ports by Russia.
However, Mr Biden’s officials made it clear on Sunday that Washington will attempt to block the plans in a bid to protect US farmers and avoid jeopardising climate commitments.
Downing Street sources admitted that Mr Johnson’s plan would fail without the support of all G7 nations. The Telegraph understands Germany is backing the plan, but it has been rebuffed by the US and Canada. (read more).
North American farmers, experts in crop efficiency and production, could easily fill the gap on any missing food products from Ukraine. Unlike Europe North America has more than one annual crop cycle each year. We are fortunate in our abundance. However, the multinational corporations, Big Ag, would need to see support from U.S. and Canadian agriculture policy before expanding production for food.
The Biden administration has already increased the mandate for biofuel ethanol and is charging gasoline refineries more money if they do not use 15% ethanol (E15) year-round. This Biden administration E15 mandate, or pay a fee, is part of what has driven up the price of gasoline.
The EPA enforces the biofuel standard by requiring refineries to submit purchase credits (known as Renewable Identification Numbers, or RINs) to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proving they purchased ethanol or biofuel to mix with refined gasoline. {Go Deep}
This enforcement requirement sets up a system where the RIN credits are bought and sold by small refineries who do not have or want the infrastructure to do E15 blending. Those refineries purchase second-hand RIN credits from parties that blended or imported biofuels directly. This sets up a secondary income stream, a trading market for the larger oil companies, refineries and importers.
[NOTE: The RIN credit trading platform is similar to what we might expect to see if the ‘Carbon Trading’ scheme was ever put into place.] However, now that the summer biofuel requirements for blended gasoline have gone from 10% to 15%, the price of the RIN credits has increased. This costs refineries billions in additional expenses,…. which means the cost of non E15 gasoline from the refineries has increased…. which means the price of non E15 gasoline at the pump has increased.
If the U.S. and Canada were really concerned about food insecurity and the potential for famine, Joe Biden would drop the E15 requirement (the term “waiver” is a misnomer in this policy that actually means government requirement) then less biofuel would be needed and less RIN credits would need to be purchased. This would allow North American farmers to produce food crops for people and would simultaneously drop the price of gasoline (no RIN credits needed).
However, the U.S. (Biden) and Canada (Trudeau) will not generate more food for people because that would undercut the effort for climate change.
Maintaining the climate change agenda is more important than feeding people, according to Justin Trudeau and Joe Biden.
Remember that the culture with the most compelling story is ultimately victorious. At least according the eggheads in FJB’s White House.
Wonder how the story that our self-righteous concerns about the weather are more important than your food stacks up as a compelling narrative.
Boris, that big oaf. Didn’t he get the memo? Everyone is full steam ahead on the famine and depopulation agenda, and it sounds like Boris hasn’t even started to do his part.
Climate change is big government shrine material and nothing else!
Its murder.
I continually hear the mantra, just wait until November. I remember the year of the Tea Party. Within a year, after the Tea Party elections, a great number of the newly elected Tea Partyers were co-opted and we weren’t in a lot better shape than before the election. We have to remember the Deep State, Washington lobbyist, and Washington insiders are always working against all who come to Washington to change things. We need to be sure our candidates are strong enough to withstand the pressures that will come and that they realize that no one in Washington is their friend.
The elites want starvation. Their Greenie lunatic allies consider humanity as a whole to be a parasite to be erradicated, thus they are all on board with the elites to create starvation in order to reduce the overall global human population.
Bill Gates, along with his buddies in Davos have been open about their goal to reduce the population below 2 billion from the current 7+ billion.
The only thing standing in their way is the armed American citizen.
It looks as if a few of these supposed leaders are getting cold feet. Watch for them to disappear.
The G-7 is proving itself to be an enemy of the people. It should be put in a “time out” for errant behavior or just be disbanded?
Here’s to hoping everyone in the picture dies before the year is out, then we can all celebrate.
Producing crops for ethanol is wasteful and does not reduce CO2 at all. This is why they promote it.
The answer is of course that The Dotard and Schwab’s star pupil in Canada have no interest in feeding people. They like their master Gates want people to starve and disappear, especially caucasians and heterosexuals, and their places to be taken by brown Third World slaves who will eat bugs and like it. A better use for foodstuffs is to make the biofuel that heats and lights their palaces, that fuels their private jets and that keeps their police vans running to surveil, arrest and kill those who dissent from their regimes. It is unclear when the patient people of Canada will say “no more” but that time is coming. As for the First American Republic, which the last week has suggested may not be quite as moribund as we had feared, the best way to celebrate the coming anniversary of the American Revolution is with another one.