While we're bitching about high gas prices, the people of the Third World are going hungry, thanks to a confluence of factors including soaring oil prices, U.S. subsidies to corn farmers for ethanol, and global warming.
A global food shortage, not to mention an energy crisis, was forecast years ago, vis-รก-vis Peak Oil. In case you haven't heard, there is a finite amount of the black stuff in the earth, and we've already burned up half of it. The first half was easy to get; the last half is a lot trickier. And our whole civilization is built upon the availability of cheap oil.
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