A Question about Global Warming Policy? We have a strategic oil reserve in the case of supply disruptions, but since the 1996 Freedom to Farm act, in the US we eliminated our government strategic grain reserves. Also, because of the current global situation, our current domestic grain supplies on critical food grains such as wheat are down to less than 4 days as of today. Meaning, any supply disruptions or bad year will create a near guaranteed shortage and hoarding problems.

Seeing as we cannot eat our strategic %26quot;oil%26quot; reserve in the event of a food shortage, wouldn%26#039;t it be sound policy that everyone could agree on to re-establish the government strategic grain reserves??

Any constructive thoughts would be appreciated..
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/sto...
http://www.ethanolproducer.com/article.j...

With the global shortage of wheat right now it is too costly to have a large wheat reserve and also the supply is not present to do so. The price of wheat has gone up 25% in the last week. (50% in the last month) (due to the global shortage)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7264...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0227/p01s0...
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=2...

How about stopping stupid subsidies for ethanol production and letting farmers grow food instead?
We could then replenish our reseves. Government created crisis