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Cap-and-trade will increase food prices

SOURCE: DIGG • 2009-12-30
TOPICS: Peak Oil • Emissions Trading • Tom Vilsack • World Food Price Crisis • Social Issues • Politics

[55 diggs @ Political Opinion] The cap-and-trade bill that passed the House and is still pending in the Senate will increase food prices by 4.5 percent by 2050 by encouraging landowners to re-forest 59 million acres of farmland by that time. SecAg Tom Vilsack knows it and now w... read more »

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