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IF YOU’VE been watching the commodity markets, you know that prices of certain food staples, especially maize, have been rising in recent months. That’s because people want to use them for energy, and not to power people or horses. The push into biofuels is diverting commodities from feedstock to fuelstock.

Waste-biomass ethanol, cellulosic ethanol, or similar kinds of methanol — Bob Zubrin told me you can make methanol fuel from kudzu — are different. But they don’t have the pork-potential.