Biofuels?

In the endeavour to find an alternative source of energy or at least something to take a little of the place of Oil, one suggestion is biofuels.

In and of itself, this sounds interesting, it is renewable, it can be local and it can happen now.  Plus it becomes an additive and so you use less petroleum and therefore less carbon is pumped into the atmosphere.  Almost sounds like a winner.

There is just one problem and it is articulated in this article.  It appears the mad rush towards biofuels is responsible for pushing up the price of food and therefore bringing starvation and all sorts of suffering upon the globe's poor.

So a solution to our environmental crisis is feeding another crisis and that is the spectre of starvation.  Grain that could be used for food is being removed and becoming fuel.    The problem with all this is it takes a lot to bring it about.  I recall reading an article that said to produce all the biofuel needed for the US for one year, would take the entire corn crop.  Every single solitary kernel of corn would go towards the production of fuel.  That means, no corn for animals or for people.  So forget your Corn Flakes, they ain't part of the diet any more. One person suggested it takes 450 lbs of corn to make one gallon of ethanol. 

That's just the start of the problem, Global Research put online an article entitled:  Biofuels: The Five Myths of Agro-fuels Transition.  The writer states a myth is being given to the Media of the advantages of biofuel and how it will change the environment for the better.  However, as always, there are consequences which are not being reported.  The five myths  are: