LESTER BROWN, EARTH POLICY INSTITUTE:
The grain it requires to fill a 25-gallon SUV tank with ethanol will feed one person for a year. And so what we're beginning to see now at the global level, for the first time ever, is direct competition between the 860 million people who own automobiles and want to maintain their mobility competing for grain with the two billion poorest people in the world who are simply trying to survive.
Check out this intelligent article on the rising price of grain due to ethanol production.
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