Comments on: Biofuel Could Boost Food Prices Up to 80% http://gigaom.com/cleantech/biofuel-could-boost-food-prices-up-to-80/ Tue, 29 May 2012 18:55:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: pomonapost http://gigaom.com/cleantech/biofuel-could-boost-food-prices-up-to-80/#comment-6757 Sat, 11 Aug 2007 22:29:09 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/2007/08/09/biofuel-could-boost-food-prices-up-to-80/#comment-6757 If that was the case, Dr. No, the corn prices would have gone up years ago. The truth is, we’ll be burning in our cars what others could have eaten, but couldn’t afford.

]]> By: Katie Fehrenbacher http://gigaom.com/cleantech/biofuel-could-boost-food-prices-up-to-80/#comment-6756 Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:13:02 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/2007/08/09/biofuel-could-boost-food-prices-up-to-80/#comment-6756 Dr. No, the ethanol food vs fuel argument is definitely up for debate. I’ll ask the International Food Policy Research Institute if they are considering oil prices in that estimate.

]]> By: Dr. No http://gigaom.com/cleantech/biofuel-could-boost-food-prices-up-to-80/#comment-6755 Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:47:26 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/2007/08/09/biofuel-could-boost-food-prices-up-to-80/#comment-6755 Get your facts straight and understand what is big and what is small: Oil prices are driving everything, ie the diesel for the tractor and the hydrocarbons used for the fertilizer. That is driving up the prices not the use of corn for fuel. In fact, the US is importing more $value oil than the entire agricultural production of the US is worth – and corn is only a subset of it and they have 7 year pattern of rising and falling. In fact, this corn harvest is going to be big, so where are the prices going to go next? And what would happen to the ethanol producer if the corn prices would be high? Just use common sense…

Another testament to the gushing but uninformed and unintelligent public jumping at every urban myth and every conspiracy theory thrown in front of it. Like the old Rome: bread and circus and rumors… Lovin’ it.

]]> By: Food prices could rise up to 80%, thanks to biofuels | Greenbang.com http://gigaom.com/cleantech/biofuel-could-boost-food-prices-up-to-80/#comment-6754 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:04:12 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/2007/08/09/biofuel-could-boost-food-prices-up-to-80/#comment-6754 [...] to soaring tortilla prices, which in turn is due to increased farm land being used for biofuels. A piece in earth2tech notes that food prices could rise by anything between 40 and 80%, unless crop efficiency is [...]

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