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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.
  • Don't put too much stock in numbers....

    The use of numbers like "75", "3", "40" as "percentages", coming from prestigious organizations, really mislead people into thinking that this is an equation that can be answered. To really understand the conclusions represented by a single or two digit number would require a Talmudic intensity that almost no one (except for Mr. Leonard) is willing to expend.

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