Jim Angle on Hume’s show, last night: [1]
We’ve told you how the use of food crops for biofuels [2] has driven up the prices for tortillas in Mexico, breakfast cereal in the U.S. and beer in Germany.
Now Spiegel Online reports the price of Germany’s beloved gummy bears may soar next year because of the biofuel boom. That’s because the price of key ingredient glucose rose by 30 percent in 2006.
Some German business people have had enough. They have formed an alliance that is seeking an end of government subsidies for biofuel crops. They say that in two to four years there will be food shortages — if crops continue to be diverted to biofuel production.
It was just a few days ago, that Spiegel posted an article about how things are going much better in Iraq than our own press is pleased to tell us about. Now, this, with Biofuels.
So what’s up with Spiegel, of late? They would appear to have come down with a serious case of reality., or something.
Recently, the Germans hundred into power a government that was significantly friendlier to the United States . One could logically ask the question, whether Spiegel waking up and smelling the schnitzel, finally, was a symptom of the cause of that election or a reaction to it.