http://www.dianaswednesday.com/2008/01/europe-cutting-biofuel-subsidies/ Where the world comes together Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:46:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 http://www.dianaswednesday.com/2008/01/europe-cutting-biofuel-subsidies/#comment-1066 Diana Thébaud Nicholson Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:57:54 +0000 http://www.dianaswednesday.com/2008/01/europe-cutting-biofuel-subsidies/#comment-1066 <strong><a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40929" rel="nofollow">Biofuels a Lose-Lose Strategy, Critics Say</a></strong> By Stephen Leahy BROOKLIN, Canada, Jan 25 (IPS) - U.S. biofuels production is driving up food prices around the world, giving billions of poor people a very good reason to hate U.S. policy, say environmentalists. "The U.S. has led the fight to stem global hunger, now we are creating hunger," said Lester Brown, president of the <a href="http://www.earth-policy.org/" rel="nofollow">Earth Policy Institute</a>, an environmental think tank in Washington. The booming U.S. ethanol industry is diverting enormous amounts food into fuel: 81 million tonnes of grain in 2007 and 114 million tonnes this year, equaling 28 percent of the entire U.S. grain harvest, Brown told IPS. Previous eras of high grain prices were mainly the result of bad weather, but these price hikes are the result of government policy, he said. Biofuels a Lose-Lose Strategy, Critics Say
By Stephen Leahy
BROOKLIN, Canada, Jan 25 (IPS) - U.S. biofuels production is driving up food prices around the world, giving billions of poor people a very good reason to hate U.S. policy, say environmentalists.
“The U.S. has led the fight to stem global hunger, now we are creating hunger,” said Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute, an environmental think tank in Washington.
The booming U.S. ethanol industry is diverting enormous amounts food into fuel: 81 million tonnes of grain in 2007 and 114 million tonnes this year, equaling 28 percent of the entire U.S. grain harvest, Brown told IPS.
Previous eras of high grain prices were mainly the result of bad weather, but these price hikes are the result of government policy, he said.

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