I don’t know the situation in Ghana but I think the author is wrong. And here’s why.

I don’t think you necessarily have to have environmental destruction with Jatropha. It grows on wasteland with much less water that normal food crops. It grows in dessert areas. You don’t have to chop down any of your greenie weenie rain forest. I do believe in chopping and replanting 1/20 of the Forest each year for thinning purposes so that the Forest Fires caused by Big Fat Mother Earth won’t burn Superhot. I personally think that the Greenie Weenies who believe in the “Let in burn theory” should be sent to re-Education camps.

Clearly auto emissions from Ethanol is much less than emissions from Gasoline.

I agree with the author about using Corn to make Ethanol. Making Ethanol from Corn has driven up the price of corn and thus all Food because Corn is a basic Feedstock that is used to produce other types of food and Meats. Using Corn to make Ethanol will eventually lead to Mass Starvation. I am totally opposed to using Corn to make Ethanol except in the case where there is an excess of Corn that drives the price so low that the Farmers can’t make a profit. For years and years the Liberal Elites and East Coast and West Coast Trash has made fun of Middle American Corn Farmers. For years the Yankees and the West Coast Trash laughed at the Farmers while they were loosing their family farms. I am glad to see the Corn Farmers finally get some revenge on them by using Ethanol to drive up the price of Corn and finally start putting some money in the bank to feed their families and send their kids to college also. Why on Earth is a Farmer considered less of a human being that a big fat Union goon Auto worker, I have no idea.

You will not loose hundreds of millions of dollars by planting Jatropha trees in wastelands. You will get rich. Eventually we will run out of gasoline and we will have to use higher and higher amounts of Ethanol in our Gasoline. Increasing demand for Ethanol in the coming years is a surety. Anyone between 30 degrees North of the Equator to 30 degrees South of the Equator is prime territory for growing Jatropha on its wastelands. Open your eyes; you might even escape Poverty.

Trade Wars are inevitable with young, stupid, naïve, and irresponsible Barack H. Obama in the White House. He is a power hunger neo-Communist from the get go and will do anything to amass more power. Right now he is setting the stage for Unions all over America so he can steal the wealth of the successful Americans and give it to his Comrades. Tariffs and Price Controls are inevitable. His redistributionist Tax structure is a Marxist as it gets. Get use to Trade Wars, Comrade.

Chip Daigle
Mandeville, LA