Esmoreit said:
Well, you know biofuel is more then just ethanol, right? It's made from palmoil for instance (easily replaced by oliveoil) and Secondly, starvation is mostly combated with grains and rice. Neither ricefields nor grainfields are overtly used to produce the components for biofuels and it's doubtfull this will change as the price for both is still higher on the market then governments can subsidize against. And as always, It'll turn out. Remember, it's not just the US who aids in combating Famine.
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The UN disagrees... as do basically every expert on the subject who isn't paid by an ethanol subsidy.
Food prices go up because of the massive amounts of corn the US uses in it's biofuels program. Obama specifically wants to triple this.
When corn prices rise it effects the prices of everything else as well as there is less food on the market in general.