Ethanol cars run on human misery

[denem]

That of-so-progressive chief of the WTO has a few words to dsy on the march of biofuels and world hunger:

Fill up with E85, starve a child. 11th April 2008

The head of the World Bank has said that soaring food prices are causing hardship and starvation for poor people worldwide, and implied that at least some of the blame lay with Western governments' efforts to encourage biofuel use.

"While many worry about filling their gas tanks, many others around the world are struggling to fill their stomachs," said Bank supremo Robert Zoellick, quoted in today's Guardian.

"This is not just about meals forgone today, or about increasing social unrest, it is about lost learning potential for children and adults in the future, stunted intellectual and physical growth," he added.

"We estimate that the effect of this food crisis on poverty reduction worldwide is in the order of seven lost years."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/11/world_bank_biofuel_kicking/

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I also wonder how many acres of Brazilian rain forest it takes to fill a few E85 SUVs?

[JoFerret]

1. Biofuels contributing to the world food crisis

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