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- Secret report: biofuel caused food crisis
  Posted by Jon from Guardian UK
  Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% - far more than previously estimated - according to a confidential World Bank report obtained by the Guardian.
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- Biofuel backlash: High prices, pollution worries hit consumers
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  But in the last year, the promise of renewable fuels has lost a lot of its luster. Prices of biodiesel have almost doubled to about $6 per gallon, and many experts blame biofuel production for driving up food prices worldwide. Prominent scientists have questioned whether growing crops for biofuels produces more greenhouse gases than it prevents
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- US corn biofuels will expand Gulf of Mexico 'dead zone': scientists
  Posted by Jeff from Rawstory
  A boost in corn production will worsen the Gulf's so-called "dead zone," an area with so little oxygen that sealife suffocates, said Simon Donner, a geographer at the University of British Columbia in Western Canada.
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- Not so fast with biofuels, U.N. warns
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  Biofuels like ethanol can help reduce global warming and create jobs for the rural poor, but the benefits may be offset by serious environmental problems and increased food prices for the hungry, the United Nations concluded Tuesday in its first major report on bioenergy.
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- A Renewed Push for Ethanol, Without the Corn
  Posted by Jon from New York Times
  The promise and challenges of cellulosic ethanol
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- Food prices to rise as biofuel demand grows
  Posted by Jeff from Financial Times
  "Feed prices are rising, so that pushes up the costs of poultry, hogs and cattle and therefore a rancher is going to lower the size of his herd to keep costs down. In turn there is going to be less meat, which means prices are going to go up," said Mr Collins, who is responsible for the USDA's agricultural forecasts and is adviser to Mike Johanns, the US secretary of agriculture.
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- Main Dish: A Grist special series on biofuels
  Posted by Jeff from Grist
  Is the world's love affair with oil over? These days, ethanol is praised as the whiz-bang cure-all for our energy ills. And maybe all the sweet talk will cause this "new" fuel to forget that America dumped her for oil in the early 20th century. Oil's just so ... ew all of a sudden. We may finally be ready to return to our first love, an energy sour
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Jeff comments on:
Biofuel backlash: High prices, pollution worries hit consumers

Actually, people are complaining about rain forest being destroyed… just look at the grist mill blog today see grist.org

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11:07 pm 6/09/08
theauthor comments on:
Biofuel backlash: High prices, pollution worries hit consumers

If you turn every cob of corn on the planet into fuel, you will have less than 1 quarter of the fuel needs of the US. And we aren’t the only ones driving cars. Brazil is using biofuels, and suddenly no one is complaining about the rain forest being destroyed.

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7:51 pm 6/09/08
Billbar comments on:
ear and Loathing in Biofuels
Everyone see the mile-wide hole in this argument?
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3:11 pm 7/15/06

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