Fuel tax increase for private jets should ground "global baseball"

Starving Kenyans reach for food, Getty Image, AFP, published on Time.com, 2/27/08 Fuel tax increase for private aircraft pending. (Bloomberg News). The "global game of baseball" is an unaffordable and out of touch marketing plan getting worse by the minute. Bud Selig's "progressive" mandate hijacking teams to focus on his Hollywood-inspired "global warming" glitter will not disguise the folly of global baseball marketing via the jet plane.

• Will Bud Selig miss a meal due to the hoax of "biofuels?"

The Hollywood agenda bought by MLB is now bearing rotten fruit from its "ethanol" hype: Recent Reuters headlines:

Bangladesh stops poor from collecting rotten rice

26 Apr 2008

Texas seeks U.S. ethanol cutbacks; cites corn costs

25 Apr 2008

World Food Program launches emergency call for Haiti

24 Apr 2008

U.N. food aid agency’s gap grows, ration cuts loom

18 Apr 2008

Price of rice prompts renewed anger in Haiti

15 Apr 2008

• And from Time Magazine, 2/27/08 (3/4 down page):

"The push to produce biofuels as an alternative to hydrocarbons is further straining food supplies, especially in the U.S.,

• where generous subsidies for ethanol have lured thousands of farmers away from growing crops for food.

"The area used for biofuels is increasing each year," says Nik Bienkowski, head of research at ETF Securities, a commodities-trading firm in London.

• To make matters worse, global stockpiles of some basics have dwindled to their lowest point in decades. Rice — a staple for billions of Asians — has soared to its highest price in 20 years, while supplies are at their lowest level since the early 1980s, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Meanwhile, the global supply of wheat is lower than it's been in about 50 years — just five weeks' worth of world consumption is on hand, according to the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization."

• "The World's Growing Food-Price Crisis," from Time Magazine, 2/27/08, by Vivienne Walt

Bud Selig has many times said, "baseball is a social institution." Let him show it by his actions when money is on the line--and it is "inconvenient."

• On it goes.

"An Inconvenient Truth--People will go Hungry," Pueblo Chieftain Online, 4/27/08

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