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methods, instead of screwing around with deviant forms of government for the
past eight decades or so, they probably wouldn’t have had to face crop failures,
again, creating a real (or imagined) food shortage. So why do we have to make
up for their failures? Why are we responsible? Why should we have to sacrifice,
once again, national aspirations for energy independence because of Russia
and China’s farming failures? When and where have you written a paper that
lays the blame for food price increases or shortages on them?
What truly amazes and concerns me is that there are people like you, who have
wasted the educational resources of America to put forth the rubbish that you
do. If your goal in life was simply to figure out how to suck up oil industry money
couldn’t you have just opened a gasoline service station and been satisfied with
providing clean restrooms for your customers? Why take up space in a classroom? Why tarnish the name of an institution like Princeton? Why write and
publish a report that isn’t fit to wrap fish in?
If you got this far in the letter, thanks for your time. I hope that it has some
impact on you.
Marc J. Rauch
(I never received any reply from Tim Searchinger)
