My friend sent me this article on how biofuels are responsible for a 75% increase in world food prices. http://www.carectomy.com/ index.php/Politics/Biofuels- Are-Starving-Us My response: This is what happens when you live in denial for 100 years, and establish an infrastructure around a fuel source that doesn't really "exist" (the sun is the only "real" energy source we have, but that's another discussion). When it starts to run out, everything destabilizes, which is what we are seeing. The obvious choice, which is not always the best choice, is to look for the most accessible, drop-in renewable alternative . What are doing wrong with biofuels? 1. We're making the wrong fuels. Ethanol has been the biofuel of choice by many, which is a ridiculous fuel. It takes a lot of energy to distill it, and the resulting fuel has a miserable energy density. There are far better ways to get fuel from plants, unfortunately most are not usable by gasoline cars (s
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