German minister calls for biofuel rethink over rising food prices
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Washington - German Development Minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul said Saturday in Washington ahead of a World Bank meeting that the world needed to reconsider the use of biofuels amid skyrocketing food prices. "The targets for (fuel) blends must be put to the test," she said ahead of the spring meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the US capital. Increasing production of biofuels was 30 to 70 per cent responsible for the rapid rise in food prices, she said. Dearer food was "a danger for growth, combatting poverty, stability and peace in the world," she said. High prices for food had led to riots, looting and violence in many mainly poor countries.
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Biofuels are a deadly hoax!
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Christopher Calder ,
Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:31:54 GMT
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Oil price increases have not shrunk the human food supply, but biofuel production has. The more biofuels we produce, the less food we have to eat, because we grow biofuel crops, even switchgrass, using the same land, water, fertilizer, farm equipment, and labor we use to grow food. Biofuel production accelerates global warming, creates water shortages, and erodes topsoil. A new study says biofuels from cellulose sources, such as switchgrass, wood chips, crop waste, etc., will never be cost effective.
See biofuel facts at - http://home.att.net/~meditation/bio-fuel-hoax.html
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