We drive, they starve.

sadness.jpgThe corn used to produce the ethanol needed to fill a 12-gallon Prius tank will feed a person for Sudan for six months.

Just something to think about.

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2 Responses to “We drive, they starve.”

  1. Nick says on December 19th, 2007 at 2:30 am :

    I’m not too surprised it works out to something horrible like that :( - what’s the data behind that figure, or where did you get it from?

  2. todb says on December 19th, 2007 at 3:26 pm :

    Nick,

    I picked it up somewhere on the Earth Policy Institute website, or in Plan B 2.0 (avail at that site). Crazy, right?

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