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Food Inflation and The Clean Energy Scam Myth

By diverting grain and oilseed crops from dinner plates to biofuels, world is confronting a dangerous new bubble called food inflation. (What Is Inflation? – explained here)

Rice, wheat and corn – the price of the world’s three main grains, have all more than doubled in the past year.

  • The grain it takes to fill an SUV tank with ethanol could feed a person for a year.
  • By diverting grain and oilseed crops from dinner plates to fuel tanks, biofuels are jacking up world food prices and endangering the hungry.
  • An explosion in demand for farm-grown fuels has raised global crop prices to record highs.
  • Brazil now ranks fourth in the world in carbon emissions, and most of its emissions come from deforestation.
  • Studies show the biofuel boom is doing exactly the opposite of what its proponents intended: it’s dramatically accelerating global warming, imperiling the planet in the name of saving it.

Full article at TIME The Clean Energy Scam

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