Starch is a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice

The starch content of potatoes for example is 13. 7 – 22.2% wet weight.

(C6H10O5)n) is a polysaccharide carbohydrate consisting of a large number of glucose units joined together by glycosidic bonds. Starch is produced by all green plants as an energy store and is a major food source for us.

It is made by plants that get their carbon from the atmosphere in the form of carbon dioxide.

Notice the word CARBOHYDRATE again. It is a gloop made out of the carbon, from carbon dioxide and hydrogen from water, releasing lots of refreshing OXYGEN.

Starch is actually all over the place and we eat billions of tons of it. Actually, we and all the animals of the world could not survive without it. In fact we eat thousands more times starch that we burn fossil fuels because there are lots and lots of us.

All this starch we eat gets turned into sugars in our bodies, which we either store or use. The stuff that we use is in turn made into water, methane farts, or carbon dioxide which we exhale in vast quantities. The rest of it you probably know about already, as it goes down the pan to feed the fishies in the oceans.

There is a report out this weekend that says that poor old Gorgon Brawn’s crusade against Carbon is not believed by most of the British population.

Well good news I say. At least the majority retain the power of reason.

I remember years ago that the Common Market stopped European farmers from growing lots of spuds, wheat and other starchy things to maintain the profitability of the Revolting French Farmers. I wonder if that is the cause of their so-called global warming.

Actually I do not believe that it is man-made at all.

What I suggest however is that we start growing as much in the way of starchy food as we can. There are millions of spare acres of nothing in Wales for example, bar a few sporadic sheep. If we covered the place in potato plants we could save the world. We would not have to harvest them. Nature would look after that. Also they are self propagating so would need no care.

Or we could just harvest the stuff and convert it to fuel, and say a hearty bollocks to OPEC and the deluded environ-mental-ists.

Now is that a good idea or not?

Footnote by Green Arrow

Yes it is.