Re:Stop turning food into fuel (Score 1)

Reports indicate that the rise of biofuels has only contributed about 10%-30% of the rising price in food. Part of this is because the US is subsidising corn (which is good for food, but not good for biofuel) and imposing tariffs on the import of Brazilian sugarcane (which is good for biofuel). The rise in food costs is driven largely by the rise in the cost of oil, which in turn is partly driven by the investors believing that governments will reduce subsidies for biofuel due to the food shortage - paradoxically, biofuel subsidies are serving to keep food prices low by reducing the price of oil, as well as keeping them up by using up food. The key is not to refuse to make any biofuels or to go overboard on the production of them, but to use farmland efficiently - i.e. use sugarcane rather than corn, for a start. The situation is very complicated, and you don't actually know as much about it as your simplistic imperative implies.