White House Warns of Global Food Shortages After Ukraine Invasion

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The White House confirmed Monday they expect certain parts of the world to suffer a food shortage as an effect of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

“We do anticipate that higher energy fertilizer, wheat, and corn prices could impact the price of growing and purchasing critical food supplies for countries around the world,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday.

They're warming us up to the inevitability of empty shelves ... and not no panic buying emptiness ... but long-haul Depression Era shortages.

I wonder this: If America experiences a food shortage, will the greenies stop adding ethanol to our gas?  Yeah ... I didn't think so either.

ETA: Link-A-Dink

I run an engine shop. We have that so called E10 (Ethanol10%) for like ten years now.

A stern warning: 
Inform yourself first about your car. Get a statement from your manufacturer. I did not have my shop and master back then, but in the beginning of the E10 phase-in-time, lot's of cars broke down. Especially older ones! The problems were hoses, seals and the gasoline tank itself. Textile wrapped carburetor lines, leaky in no time. Chalk like residue due to oxidation into ant acid around injectors and down the whole fuel line into the tank. Ant acid is the real killer here.

If you or anyone else has such an older car with carburetor or generally older car not manufactured for E5/E10, you can mitigate the ant acid issue by adding 1% two stroke engine oil into your fuel. Just normal chainsaw mix oil. No need for the synthetic racing stuff. Don't worry about smell or smoke, current 50:1 oil almost does not smoke, if you go 100:1 you will be fine.

It helps removing and buildup of resin inside the engine too. Your engine will be thankful. And please let it run 10 seconds before you put load on it, your engine will thank you for that too. Engine ignited, then seatbelt, then do the rest of your stuff like radio or AC and now there is finally oil arriving at your camshaft. Thick but at least there is some ;)

Good advice thanks for sharing!