Are environmentalists to blame for high food prices? Land that used to produce food is now producing cleaner ethanol. And we%26#039;re buying a lot of our oil from OPEC and Arab nations, instead of drilling a couple of acres in Alaska. (And burning Arab oil pollutes just as much as burning Alaskan oil).

Can we blame the environmentalists for this. One comforting thought is that the environmentalists are paying just as much for food as the rest of us.

they are usually from, and promoted by, intensive agri-business requiring huge amounts of their chemical inputs and water, then extra refining %26amp; transport. (much is shipped twice across the atlantic to exploit subsidies %26amp; tax breaks from both US %26amp; EU) and potentially a market for their GM crops which no-one wants to eat. Agri-business %26amp; their frinds in the global media seem to have done a good propoganda exercise by implying this is because of environmental pressure, and nothing to do wiht their profits.

We are all paying for the overuse of non-renewable resources; but usually it is the poor that pay most.

No way. It%26#039;s not just food prices that are up. Inflation is close to ten percent (not the official rate, which doesn%26#039;t include food or energy). It%26#039;s because the dollar is down and the dollar is down due to the real estate bubble popping. Environmentalists have nothing to do with the real estate bubble popping.

Blame ignorance. Too many of us think driving our cars are more important than feeding the poor, so we continue to demand fuel for our leisure and for unnecessary journeys. The obvious result? Market forces will continue to supply fuel. If we all suddenly decided not to drive so much and started demanding rye bread and cornflakes instead of gas, the situation would be reversed. The poor, of course, haven%26#039;t the means to influence the market in the same way.

As well as high oil prices. The reason you are paying so much at the pump isn%26#039;t because of George Bush or the %26quot;evil%26quot; Oil Companies....it is because a bunch of %26quot;Green%26quot; activists won%26#039;t let us drill the cheap oil in Alaska because it will %26quot;hurt Mother Earth, man!%26quot;.

Blame the big %26quot;oil barons%26quot; in the Middle East.
Oil is $120. a barrel now and they know we will pay any price they demand.
Long haul truckers are going broke and have to raise their trucking fees.
That%26#039;s why grocery prices are so high now.

My props to my fellow environmentalists for debunking the ethanol myth! Stop using the world%26#039;s food supply to feed your SUV. Reserach and develop sustainable/renewable energy souces: wind, water, etc.

Government subsidies of ethanol and a tanking dollar are the culprit.
Both results of idiotic government policies.