Shilling for Corn
In May 2006, the NBC “Today” show praised ethanol. Host Katie Couric called it an “easy solution” for America’s dependence on oil. She also called ethanol “the wave of the future.”

Dan Rather, once the anchor of the CBS “Evening News,” said on the May 7, 2006, “60 Minutes” that ethanol is “cheaper and cleaner,” neither of which has turned out to be true.

Other reports have said ethanol provides more horsepower to car engines – like a “World News Sunday” report on March 25, 2007.

A March 31, 2007, NBC “Nightly News” reported suggested ethanol is “supposed to help rescue American from dependence on foreign oil.” The segment highlighted the benefits increased ethanol production held for corn farmers.

“Because of the demand for ethanol, the price of corn is up nearly 75 percent in the last year,” reporter Scott Cohn said. “A windfall on the farm at the local co-op where they sell seed and fertilizers.”

Cohn’s reported suggested good news for farmers was good news for the economy, but he ignored the fact that the demand was artificial and the possibility that higher prices would strain American families’ grocery budgets or exacerbate world hunger problems.

As recently as April 11, 2008, ABC’s “20/20” characterized ethanol as a good replacement for traditional fuels. In a segment about “the human footprint,” Elizabeth Vargas and Living Homes CEO Steve Glenn showed ethanol as a replacement for wood in high-tech fireplaces without mentioning the negative effects of the fuel.

Even environmentalists have recognized the mistake of government-mandated ethanol and are calling for it to be undone.

“Taking these together – the environmental damage, the human pain of food price inflation, the failure to reduce our dependence on oil – it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that food-to-fuel mandates have failed,” Brown and Lewis said in their column for The Washington Post.

GlobalWarmingInsanity.com   |04-25-2008 09:38 Here's the irony of the whole thing: we've been told by alarmists that global warming will be the worst on the poorest people around the world. So we're going to save them from that agony by starving them to death! Hmmmm... crops get diverted for fuel and food prices go up. Whoulda thunk it? GlobalWarming Insanity.com

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