Category: food vs fuel
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Food vs Fuel
Everybody that reads here knows I am seriously concerned about turning our food into fuel as we presently are in the US with corn to ethanol. I just wanted to clarify my position on this. I have no problem with bio-fuels. I just don't think the government should be mandating ethanol use or subsidizing its…
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Palm Oil
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/19/business/worldbusiness/19palmoil.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2">A New, Global Oil Quandary: Costly Fuel Means Costly Calories</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Rising prices for cooking oil are forcing residents of Asia’s largest slum, in Mumbai, India, to ration every drop. Bakeries in the United States are fretting over higher shortening costs. And here in Malaysia, brand-new factories built to convert vegetable oil into diesel…