Food Not Fuel - Make Your Voices Heard
Oct. 7th, 2012 07:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
semiotic_pirateMake your voices heard people! Food, not fuel. See this link for info on the situation:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/10/01/162127460/does-your-gas-tank-hold-enough-food-to-feed-22-people
and this link/document for how to make your voice heard via public comment:
http://www.epa.gov/oms/fuels/renewablefuels/documents/rfs-waiver-request-comment-extension.pdf
Written comments must be received on or before October 11, 2012.
Here's the email I sent:
Greetings -
RE: Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2012-0632
I think that the mandate for the amount of ethanol produced should be suspended. Specifically, the amount and use of corn to produce that ethanol. Although I am a supporter of alternate fuel sources, I do not believe that we should take sources of FOOD and turn them into fuel. There are plenty of alternatives to corn and other food grade inputs (like soybeans for biodiesel) in creating fuels, (cellulosic, alga sourced, etc.) Please, at the very least, lower or suspend the Renewable Fuel Standard requirements for next year.
Please see this fantastic article about the nutritional content of the ethanol that goes into our fuel tanks and the effect of the lack of this food source in feeding people.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/10/01/162127460/does-your-gas-tank-hold-enough-food-to-feed-22-people
As someone who works as an analyst in agricultural banking, I am seeing the effects of the yield and quality reductions in our nation's grain crops. Those effects are being felt by every level of agricultural production; from the farmer that is harvesting the grain, the marketing cooperative/company, the input cooperative/company, the protein ranchers and farmers with their input prices, the further processors, the consumers.
Food. Not Fuel.
Thank you for listening.
Sincerely,
*real name here*
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/10/01/162127460/does-your-gas-tank-hold-enough-food-to-feed-22-people
and this link/document for how to make your voice heard via public comment:
http://www.epa.gov/oms/fuels/renewablefuels/documents/rfs-waiver-request-comment-extension.pdf
Written comments must be received on or before October 11, 2012.
Here's the email I sent:
Greetings -
RE: Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2012-0632
I think that the mandate for the amount of ethanol produced should be suspended. Specifically, the amount and use of corn to produce that ethanol. Although I am a supporter of alternate fuel sources, I do not believe that we should take sources of FOOD and turn them into fuel. There are plenty of alternatives to corn and other food grade inputs (like soybeans for biodiesel) in creating fuels, (cellulosic, alga sourced, etc.) Please, at the very least, lower or suspend the Renewable Fuel Standard requirements for next year.
Please see this fantastic article about the nutritional content of the ethanol that goes into our fuel tanks and the effect of the lack of this food source in feeding people.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/10/01/162127460/does-your-gas-tank-hold-enough-food-to-feed-22-people
As someone who works as an analyst in agricultural banking, I am seeing the effects of the yield and quality reductions in our nation's grain crops. Those effects are being felt by every level of agricultural production; from the farmer that is harvesting the grain, the marketing cooperative/company, the input cooperative/company, the protein ranchers and farmers with their input prices, the further processors, the consumers.
Food. Not Fuel.
Thank you for listening.
Sincerely,
*real name here*
