Ranting to /dev/null

Biofuels = starvation

It shouldn't really be surprising: if you're burning food for energy, that's food that can't be eaten. And when you've already got people who don't have enough food, this begins to look like a pretty exquisite form of conspicuous consumption. I usually hold a measured antipathy towards a lot of foreign aid, but there's something pretty fundamentally wrong about actually subsidizing the burning of food when there's sufficient demand to sell it to people will, you know, eat it.