Brin blogged: > > The world's rush to embrace biofuels is causing a spike > in the price of corn and other crops and could worsen > water shortages and force poor communities off their land, > according to a U.N. official.
Ok, but this is not the consensus. What caused the spike in the prices of vegetable food is the increase of income of millions of chinese and indians. They got richer, they wanted to eat less veggies and more meat, and the production of meat takes about 7 times more vegetable than the production of veggie food. > But a biofuel startup in Illinois can make ethanol from > just about anything organic for less than $1 per gallon, > and it wouldn't interfere with food supplies... And if it becomes economically viable (a big if), then why on Earth would the organic waste be priced at zero? Here in Brazil, the price of animal fat was near zero, then we started transesterifying it to make biodiesel. Guess what? Now it's price is getting close to soybean oil. Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
