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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 05:48 PM

    Ethanol is a dead end regardless

    Considering the marginal if not negative energy 'saved' with ethanol, and add onto it *any* increase in food, it's a dead end. At best it's an interim solution to reduce foreign oil dependency.

    If people are serious, we need to be subsidizing solar and wind. The historical subsidization of oil currently crushes that of renewable resources (it's something like 12:1). It's time to turn that around.

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