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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.
Andrew Leonard

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  • Friday, July 4, 2008 01:37 AM

    @Rich_Gibson

    In your haste to take umbrage, you exhibited a very poor level of reading comprehension.

    The "crime against humanity" isn't the act of growing corn for fuel, it's when governments mandate that we should grow corn for fuel.

    Obviously anyone ought to be able to see the problem with a government mandating such an action in a vacuum.

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