Some sanity from the UN?!

World needs to rethink biofuels: UN food agency

ROME/MILAN: The Western world needs to rethink its rush to biofuels, which has done more harm pushing up food prices than it has good by reducing greenhouse gases, a United Nations report said on Tuesday.

The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said policies encouraging biofuel production and use in Europe and the United States was likely to maintain pressure on food prices but have little impact on weaning car users away from oil.

"The report finds that while biofuels will offset only a modest share of fossil energy use over the next decade they will have much bigger impacts on agriculture and food security," it said in its annual State of Food and Agriculture report.

Biofuels get political boost :: News :: Post-Tribune

HAMMOND -- Increasing supply of biofuels should be the first major goal for the next president of the United States, according to two Indiana Congressional members.

Virtually every car sold should be capable of running on an 85-percent ethanol fuel known as E-85, and cars should be more fuel efficient. That would help address climate change, provide energy security and create jobs, U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind. told an audience of several hundred people at the Purdue Calumet Lugar-Visclosky Energy Forum and Expo in Hammond on Tuesday afternoon.