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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 04:31 AM

    Point the finger at us

    The people evangelizing and driving bio-diesel are mostly lefty environmentalists. I also know of at least one environmental organization that allied with agribusiness to promote ethanol. The article takes a swipe at the Bush administration, but it's not just their fault. It is our own.

    Environmentalists care little about social equity, and place the burden on the world's poor. That inequity undermines long-term environmental goals.

    No one wants to talk about reducing total resource use.

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