Biofuels: Autos compete with fuel for the body

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Plagued by politics
Biofuels are an example of what not to do
A special report on feeding the world Feb 24th 2011 | from the print edition

The wrong shade of green
“THIS is the craziest thing we’re doing,” says Peter Brabeck, the chairman of Nestlé. He is talking about government biofuels targets which require a certain proportion of national energy needs to be met from renewable fuels, most of them biofuels (ie, ethyl alcohol made from crops, usually maize or sugar).