Kyros on 19 May 2008
Biofuels are competing with food, guess who has the most money to pay?
On the other hand guess who is really making money? The poor farmers producing food. The hardest hit countries are Egypt, Jordan and other middle eastern countries who are very poor and are highly urbanized. I am not saying that Biofuels are a good thing and they make a problem worse but its really not that black&white as you make it out to be.
The people driving up food prices the most are not the people driving cars but the people in China, who have escaped poverty and now go to McDonalds and the poorest people in the world are generally farmers so they even profit from the situation. Again this doesn't mean that the situation shouldn't be changed but I have problems with very simple explanations like
the poor are hungry because rich people want to drive cars. Its just not as simple as that.
