After years of pushing biofuels as a countermeasure to man-made global warming, Many of those same global alarmists are now painting Big Biofuel in the same light as Big Oil. Yeah, it seems even wealthy leftists will forsake the global warming marxist movement if they're hungry.
The European Union will ignore critics who accuse it of helping to boost food prices by embracing a binding target for the use of biofuels, officials said Friday.It's like a high school girls pillow fight.
The European Commission is sticking to its proposal that biofuels account for at least 10 percent of energy used by the EU's huge transportation sector by 2020, because voluntary targets have failed miserably so far, EU spokesman Michael Mann said.
The European Commission has said higher food prices are the result of increased demand for meat and dairy products, particularly in China and India, bad weather in 2006 around the world and speculation in the price of grains and other crops.
Joachim von Braun, the head of the International Food Policy Research Institute, said Europe and the U.S. must “correct political errors” made when they gave approval to an increased production of biofuels without properly researching the effects on food supplies.
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