…for “energy independence.”

“Famine,” observes Dennis Avery, the director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Global Food Issues, “is a human society’s ultimate failure. Tightening the world’s food supply by diverting major quantities of its grain stocks into fuels will drive up the prices of all food. This will inevitably hit hardest at the poorest people in the world’s food-shortage regions. This would not be ethical even if there were no other sources of energy.”

But then, the world’s poor do not participate in Iowa’s presidential caucuses.

Hey, morons! Just in case you didn’t notice (which seems likely, based on the history of my being accused of going only after Democrats), this is a criticism of Republicans.