For once I agree with Fidel Castro.
Food based biofuels may not be the answer, but another problem.
Take the declining number of farms in America and the explosion of people in third world countries and toss in the food based biofuel industry, now we have something to be concerned with.
I see food based biofuels as cheap bandage for the wound that is the worlds oil consumption.
The real alternative would be something like hydrogen or a water based design.
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The head of the U.N. Environment Program said on Wednesday Cuban leader Fidel Castro and others are justified in raising concern about the potential for ethanol production to threaten food supplies for the poor.
But UNEP director Achim Steiner said the jury is still out on whether risks outweigh the benefits when using food crops to produce ethanol as an alternative fuel.
Castro, who has taken to writing articles since he was sidelined from power last year by intestinal surgery, has attacked U.S. plans to increase biofuels output using crops such as corn, saying this will increase food prices and global hunger.
"What President Castro points to is something the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization has also raised recently: That there is significant potential and risk for competition between food production and production for a global biofuels market," Steiner told Reuters during a environmental meeting in Havana.