The Word is Getting Out

You know my feelings about how the drive for biofuels is going to drive the price of food up and how this trade off might not be the smartest thing in the world, but I now see the larger press is picking up on this idea.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL0639150720070307" title="Told you so.">As biofuels boom, will more go hungry?</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Using plants to feed our fuel needs may be a great idea, and the biofuel goldrush could be a moneyspinner for several poor countries, but some experts warn people may go hungry as food prices rise.</blockquote><br />n<br />nThere isn't much new in the article that I haven't brought up before. It points out how the poor in Mexico are all ready feeling the pinch with tortilla prices and points out how more poor throughout the world could feel the pinch as time goes along.<br />n<br />nI guess I miss the point on the whole biofuel boom. It started because fuel prices spiked so high and now everybody thinks that biofuels are the answers to our energy price woes and it will bring the price of our energy down. We can only grow so much food/fuel though. If more recourses are diverted to fuel, less are put into food and the price of food will go up. Any money you might save on fuel, which I don't think there will be any savings, you are going to spend, plus some, on the increased price for food. Are we any better off? It's a tough question, I know but I really wonder if more poor people starving is really worth the price of cheaper fuel.<br />n<br />n<strong>Education is the movement from darkness to light. Allan Bloom </strong><br />