The problem with blaming biofuels for world hunger is that it is wrong. There are four major causes of high food prices:
1. High energy and fertilizer costs
2. Skyrocketing demand by China on worldmarkets
3. Speculators fleeing dollars for commodities
4. Cold weather hurting crops, shortening growing seasons.
The problem is expressed in a backwards fashion. Corn is becoming too expensive for ethanol makers. But livestock growers in China like the price of corn just fine. China will buy all the corn America can grow–to feed livestock for meat.
Brazilian cane alcohol is quite economical, and if the US government would only drop the tariffs against it, cane alcohol and other rational biofuels would help lower the cost of gasoline and other fuels.
Such mis-attribution of causes as displayed here betrays an underlying approach to issues that reflects badly on other analyses.
