Finish Your Gas Before You Leave the Table!!!!

FINISH YOUR GAS BEFORE YOU LEAVE THE TABLE!!!!


What?

My Mom used to tell me not to leave anything on the plate and to think of all the starving children in India who would just die for what I was going to throw out.

Guilt. Thanks, Mom. I got fat thinking of starving people. Oh, the irony.


Then come the vegetarians. Eating beef or pork is immoral, they opine, because you could feed dozens of people with the amount of corn it took to produce that juicy steak that you so know you want.

Guilt. I got fat by choosing food that could have been used to feed starving people.


Now comes the ultimate kicker. I heard on the radio (NPR) the other day that you could now feed a third-world person for an entire year with the amount of corn it would take to fill up your SUV one time with corn-based ethanol.

Guilt. I choose to drive over feeding the hungry. My SUV, it turns out, is even more an instrument of starvation than all of my seconds-eating, steak-loving, pudgy little self.

I think this is even worse that the food guilt. Imagine how bad you are if you load up your SUV to go out to eat at a Steak restaurant!


You know, my last blog dealt with the unintended effect of churning corn into ethanol and how our short-sightedness has caused all food prices to go up. Now, it seems, there is another ethical argument that it is immoral to put our need for gas over and above the third world’s need for food. My republican friends will trust the free market to fix things and self-regulate. However, it may be that the free market will regulate the poor right into the throws of starvation. You see, they can’t compete with $3.49 per gallon for E-85. Corn will keep being produced and sent to ethanol factories.

Oh well, just remember when you are down to that last 1/8 of a tank you have to think of all the starving people in India who would just die to have the corn that made your gas.


Gluttonously Yours,

Blawgerman