The Case For Clean Fuel From Coal and Municpal Waste

It's amazing how long it took people to realize than surrendering farmland to "fuel farm" would drive up the price of food.

clipped from images.google.com clipped from uk.reuters.com Biofuels won't solve world energy problem: Shell The remarks follow protests in Brazil and Europe against fuels derived from food crops. Food shortages and rising costs have set off rioting and protests in countries including Haiti, Cameroon, Niger and Indonesia. "Now the world is facing a shortage of food," Qatar's Abdullah al-Attiyah said, answering a question at a news conference. "I don't think we should blame oil, we should blame biofuels." clipped from uk.reuters.com But concern over meeting the biofuels targets has fuelled fears that sky-high food prices may rise even further if fertile arable land in Europe is turned over to growing "energy crops". First-generation biofuels usually come from food crops such as wheat, maize, sugar or vegetable oils. They need energy-intensive inputs like fertilizer, which make it harder to cut emissions contributing to climate change.