{"id":199,"date":"2009-11-24T00:19:45","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T05:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/?p=199"},"modified":"2009-12-01T09:59:10","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T14:59:10","slug":"starving-for-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"Starving for Fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/hunger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"hunger\" border=\"0\" alt=\"hunger\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/hunger_thumb.jpg\" width=\"116\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a> By Lester Brown, THE GLOBALIST, August 2, 2006<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cars, not people, will claim most of the increase&#160; in world grain consumption this year. Of this, 14 million tons will be used to produce fuel for cars in the United States, leaving only 6 million tons to satisfy the world&#8217;s growing food needs. The U.S. Department of Agriculture projects that world grain use will grow by 20 million tons in&#160; 2006. In agricultural terms, the world appetite for automotive fuel is insatiable. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobalist.com\/storyid.aspx?StoryId=5518\" target=\"_blank\">[Read rest of story]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- End Story Intro --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rising oil prices have prompted an increased demand for food-based fuels. As Lester Brown writes in this article in The Globalist, the increasing production of food-based fuels could cause more people to suffer from hunger and add to global political instability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}