If our own Democrats and Republicans would stop using our tax dollars to pay the agricultural industry to divert perfectly good food-crop land to grow corn they then force us to burn in our gas tanks, global food prices and shortages might not be what they are.
There are VERY few issues where I concern myself with how the rest of the world views America, but this is one. I wonder what it looks like when a nation whose people by all current and historical standards have eliminated poverty, burns the product of millions of acres of the world's most fertile farm land in our gas tanks, in order to fuel a lifestyle that no other nation can, paying for it with debt - while 16,000 children per day literally starve to death.
If I was viewing this dynamic from abroad, I believe I would have a very cynical view. And yes, Charles Grassley, I'm talking to you.