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Friday, July 4, 2008 12:00 AM

A biofuel food-price bombshell

The U.K. Guardian reports some astonishing numbers from a "confidential" World Bank study on energy crops and grain prices.

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  • Friday, July 4, 2008 07:07 PM

    Voice of Reason

    Slave- and futures traders are not playing on the same pitch of endeavors.

    The former is a technical/trading bunch- hustling and betting to make a buck (I'm one of them)- whereas the latter are a morally reprehensible lot and as such beyond discussion.

    That Bush and his neocon clique are distorters of fact and liars has unfortunately been establishred

    To hell with them all. Good riddance come November.

    My views on ethanol are not all that sanguine. To distil it from corn is inefficient and costly in many ways.

    Import sugar based ethanol from Brasil. Dump tariffs.

    However, I like your reasoning, as I hope to meet with you again on another subject.

    Love the Baby Jesus and take the easy ones twice.

    Mungo

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