Uncle Sam Scrooge

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/columnists/article3908044.ece America must learn to love dearer petrol American Account Irwin Stelzer ...By constricting food supplies, ethanol madness has contributed to the rise in food prices that is afflicting mostly poor people around the world. In essence, rich countries are trying to find a way to fill their petrol tanks at the expense of empty stomachs in Africa, Mexico, and parts of Asia. Are not the Poor Laws in force? And the workhouses, surely they are still in full vigor? We do not intend to harm other people. The distinction is keenly appreciated by us. The people who are trodden under our feet have a slightly different and jaundiced view of the matter.