Ethanol boom could hurt world's poor - expert

The race to boost ethanol production could hurt food the supply for many of the world's poor, an environmental expert said on Thursday.

"This is shaping up as competition between the 800 million people in the world that own automobiles and the 2 billion low- income people in the world, many of whom are already spending over half their income on food," Lester Brown, president of Washington D.C.-based environmental research group Earth Policy Institute, told reporters on a teleconference.
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chewy - 7/17/2006 4:17:30 PM

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Here is the inconvinient truth about Ethanol/E85

http://www.caranddriver.com/features/11174/tech-stuff-ethanol-promises.html

Here is what it does to your fuel economy.

http://www.caranddriver.com/article.asp?article_id=11174§ion_id=4&page_number=7

PlanoA4 - 7/18/2006 9:02:46 AM

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A Cornell study questions the entire viability of using corn as a basis for fuel. It currently takes more energy to produce than it can provide back. Also. If we all switched at one timne in the US, it would take 97% of the entire land mass to be devoted to corn production to meet the need. Now unless we have plans to irrigate Africa, we might want to focus on a better alternative.

Source: http://healthandenergy.com/ethanol.htm