Like Americans Should - Original Food vs Fuel Song

When Americans pay top-dollar for fuels made from grains, we are outbidding someone else for that food. In June 2009, the number of people considered undernourished by the UN WFP rose over one billion for the first time in history. Compared to those one billion people, we in America are very, very wealthy. We can afford to pay more for our luxury than they are able to pay for their necessity. That's why our gas tanks are full of food, while their plates are empty. Both President Bush and President Obama have appealed to our patriotism to further the biofuel agenda, but there is nothing American about increasing world hunger.

Read more about E85 and the Food vs Fuel debate at http://collegeGuy13.blogspot.com/

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Like Americans Should
By collegeGuy13

I wanted to improve my life
And make my travels green
So I traded in the car I had
That ran on gasoline

And I bought myself and SUV
That doesn't use no crude
No you fill'er up and drive around
On starvin' children's food

[Chorus]
E85 that's the answer
To global warmin', poverty, and cancer
Do your country right
Do your nation good
Drive E85
Like Americans should

They make it out of corn we grow
Right here in the Midwest
There's enough for fuel and eatin', too
Why Lord, we all are blessed

It jacks the price of food right up
Some foreigners just can't pay
But they were third world anyhow
They were gunna' starve anyway

[Chorus]

Well the price of corn in Texas
Affects the price of rice in China
Affects the price of couscous sold in Timbuktu

But though there's starvin' kids in Africa
And food riots in Latin America
It doesn't matter 'cause it ain't happen' to you

[Chorus]

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Couscous image courtesy of Rainer Zenz, available under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 license
Corn image courtesy of Andrew Butko, available under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 license
I doubt any one cares, but I wanted to be thorough. :)

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[switchgrassfuel]

Good song, but you have a lot to learn about ethanol and the crops used to make it. It is not perfect but it is a step in the rite direction. If you think food prices would go way down if we had no ethanol, I think you would be wrong the gas prices would go up and the price for transporting food to the store, and to any other country would go up. Now ethanol is and will continue to improve and it doesn't need this negative video The world is not ready for Peak Oil. Your song isn't helping.

[collegeGuy13]

The problem isn't ethanol, it's the fact that current methods of ethanol production drive up commodity costs. Although higher grain costs are a small matter to those like ourselves who buy value-added processed foods, it's a matter of life and death to those who can only afford the most basic staples.

Cellulosic ethanol, as your name suggests, can avoid this problem, but only if managed carefully.

Trucks can't run on ethanol, so it's pretty safe to say E85 doesn't affect food transport costs.

[laurag333]

i love you.

[Diamond121212]

gotta love the sarcasm

[switchgrassfuel]

I have seen trucks and small tractors run on ethanol. but that is not the issue, crude oil is what is needed to make the diesel for our trucks and the gas for our cars. So if we are not using ethanol we are competing for the same barrel of oil to drive our cars instead of run our tractors or trucks. so don't till me that ethanol doesn't affect transportation costs.

[Spijker8844]

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[cherrychan108]

ahaha wicked to see ur back

i happened to be thinkin bout u the other day and now ur here!