USDA Says Biofuels Not Responsible for Increasing Food Prices

On Monday the USDA held a press briefing. The subject? Food and fuel.
One theory that has been widely discussed in recent weeks is that the nation’s growing demand for biofuels and the crops needed to produce them is the real culprit behind higher food prices, both at home and abroad. Yet the evidence [...]

Food AND Fuel

There’s been a lot of hype lately over biofuels starving the world, and unfortunately there’s not better way to say it than that — hype.
Instead of having the knee-jerk reaction, of panic, we need to think carefully about the problem, for starters, we need to actually identify the problem.
In a recent op-ed in the Minneapolis [...]

International Energy Agency Statement on Biofuels

There has been much in the media lately on biofuels, climate change and the food crisis.
The International Energy Agency, energy policy advisor to 27 member countries (one of which is the United States) formed during the oil crisis of 1973-74 recently released a statement on biofuels,
“The recent shortage in grain stocks and surge in [...]