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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.
Andrew Leonard

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  • Friday, July 4, 2008 04:18 PM

    You left out Mr. Obama sir

    You criticise the Bush administration in your short blurb but you fail to highlight Barack Obama's strong and unrepentant support for corn-based ethanol.

    Corn-based ethanol - bad for America, bad for humanity, and bad for planet Earth...

    but good for our lord and saviour's election campaigns so what of it?

    I cannot believe how many people fell for the greatest fraud of the twenty-first century, and how many still want to give him the wholly unearned benefit of the doubt.

    A fool and his democracy are soon parted.

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