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Friday, July 4, 2008 08:44 PM
Original article: A biofuel food-price bombshell

The World Bank report is no surprise

I'm not surprised by this report. Biofuel is about subsidies for Iowa corn farmers, not energy. If we were serious about biofuel as a source of energy, we would stop the barriers to Brazilian sugar cane ethanol.

Gary

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