Biofuels Initiative Is Problematic

by David on October 22, 2010

The President’s latest initiative to support biofuels will pay farmers to plant non-food crops. But discouraging the planting of food crops will lead to higher food prices. If the goal is to encourage the production of more biofuels, why not raise the price of fuel rather than the price of food?

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