http://laist.com/2008/06/05/a_biofuel_revol.php All comments for A Biofuel Revolution? Not So Fast en-us 2008 la_zach Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:07:29 -0800 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss tincanorange@gmail.com tincanorange@gmail.com 60 http://laist.com/2008/06/05/a_biofuel_revol.php#comment-1378903 http://laist.com/2008/06/05/a_biofuel_revol.php#comment-1378903 Comments Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:00:08 -0800 <p>It always surprises me that when the topic of rising food prices caused by corn being diverted to ethanol production comes up no one mentions exactly how corn ends up being food. I think very little corn is directly consumed by people; corn isn't a worldwide human staple. People eat animals and those animals are raised on corn-based feed. If people didn't eat animals we wouldn't have to raise them on corn-feed. Then there would be so much surplus corn that we could divert huge amounts into ethanol production without affecting food prices. And since we wouldn't have enormous livestock ranches to support we'd have a massive gain in farmable land with which to grow a variety of high-nutrition crops. I've always wondered what you would learn if you asked people straight up: Which would you rather have: cheaper gas or bacon?</p>