At least 192,000 murdered by starvation due to ethanol industry, many more suffer disease--2011 Journal of American Phys. and Surgeons

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Spring 2011, "Could Biofuel Policies Increase Death and Disease in Developing Countries?" Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, Indur M. Goklany, PhD

Page 1: "Combining these estimates with estimates of the
increase in poverty owing to growth in biofuels production over 2004 levels leads to the conclusion that additional biofuel production may have resulted in at least

• 192,000 excess deaths

and 6.7 million additional lost DALYs in 2010....
Thus policies intended to mitigate global warming may actually have
increased death and disease in developing countries....

Page 12: "These estimates are conservative."...

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Politicians like Gingrich and Jeb Bush love ethanol, cite national security.

Newt Gingrich took $300,00 from the ethanol lobby in 2009:

4/25/11, "Newt Gingrich faces questions about consulting job and support for biofuels," iWatch News, John A. Farrell

"“I am not a lobbyist for ethanol,” Newt Gingrich declared in a mid-winter spat with the editors of The Wall Street Journal over his support for government subsidies for alternative fuel.

But Gingrich was a hired consultant to a major ethanol lobbying group—at more than $300,000 a year.

According to IRS records, the ethanol group Growth Energy paid Gingrich’s consulting firm $312,500 in 2009.The former House Speaker was the organization’s top-paid consultant, according to the records. His pay was one of the group’s largest single expenditures, as it took in and spent about $11 million to promote ethanol and to lobby for federal incentives for its use."...

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Jeb Bush promotes global ethanol use, says 'national security' more important than 'the corn guy in Des Moines.'

10/9/2006, "The Saudis of the Southern Hemisphere," Forbes, David Adams

"Gov. (Jeb) Bush is discussing the creation of a joint commission with Brazil to promote ethanol as a hemispheric vehicle for energy security. While he recognizes the concerns of U.S. corn producers, he says

• national security should take precedence.

“That to me is a heck of a lot more important than whether or not the corn guy in Des Moines is protected so that we continue to consume foreign sources of oil,” he (Jeb Bush) said."

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1/28/11, "Draft EPA report: Biofuels threaten habitat, water quality," The Hill, Ben Geman

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via Climate Depot