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Independent Candidate for President
Misteradiant:
In my platform, I have spoken at great length about what I hope to accomplish for American farmers. They will be given new crops to grow and new ways to use their land.
I will end all farm subsidies. Farmers will grow what they want, when they want. They have been doing if for generations and know what they are doing. They do not need the government to tell them what to do.
Farmers have been hit hard in the past few years. About one-fifth of all U.S. energy use goes into the system that brings food to your fork. From the electricity burned up in factories that process the packaged goods that line supermarket shelves to energy which powers the red tractors that plow the earth to plant seeds, fuel is needed. Since 2001, nationwide average diesel fuel costs have risen from 80 cents per gallon to $3.05 per gallon. Last year, diesel costs rose 45%. In five years, 375% more. From trucks to tractors, most farm vehicles run on diesel fuel. That means what they make costs more to buy. From milk to orange juice, chicken to steak, everything costs more from a facility that relies on petroleum fuels, instead of biofuels, to operate.
Richard Heinberg, a scholar and the author of The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies, has found that "We've created an agricultural system where, on average, for every energy of food calorie we produce, we need to expend about 10 calories of fossil fuels." In my vision of America, we find innovative ways to turn that ratio of 10-to-1 into 1-to-1. I trust our agricultural and scientific communities to find ways to do this that do not first take into account the profit of a corporation, but the benefit to the consumer.
A nation that produces biofuel will find less cost at the pump. There is still enough money in biodiesel to make tens, if not hundreds of billions of dollars, even if it is sold at a retail price of only a buck fifty a gallon. To lower the cost of goods more factories, more crops and more ways to expand the biofuel industry are needed. Diesel is the fuel farms and ranches use to power their machinery. A biofuel nation is a more profitable and powerful nation. It is a self-sufficient nation. It is a free nation. Farming is once again the backbone of what will keep America the world's leader.
Believing the politicians whose campiagn donation list reads like a petroleum oil corporation party will only get you war and fear. America must invest in its farms once again and become free from the grasp of foreign oil and the hate that stems from those nations.
Legalizing hemp growth will give all struggling farms an inexpensive plant to grow and harvest, with a profit margin higher than many crops. The American government will invest in building regional factories for hempseed oil and biodiesel fuel. This will not only grow their wealth, but the wealth of their entire rural community. American citizens wealth will be in growing, processing, refining and selling biodiesel to their communities and worldwide, instead of letting that wealth grow in corporate boardrooms and foreign palaces.
Assisting farmers with one-time bonuses for placing solar and wind collection energy units on their land will increase rural tax revenues, which means better roads, education and energy distribution. This assists job growth, raises the standard of living, makes us independent from foreign oil, secures our nation against terrorist threats, creates funds through taxes for public works and assists in removing our troops from Iraq.
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