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Originally Posted by Mike Harte
Surely that depends on the source of the bio fuels; if it's from crops grown to create fuel, then it's not good because that land could have been used to grow food for the millions of starving people around the world.
This whole subject is not as clear cut as many would have the world believe.
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I'm not saying you're wrong (you're not), but this generally isn't how growing crops works. You grow crops and the higher quality grains can go to food, beers etc. Then as the quality decreases it becomes less suitable for food and it becomes things like chicken feed. Biofuels are in this range somewhere too.
Additionally, it's hard to say things like "we shouldn't use crops for fuel when we can use it for food for starving people" when we currently don't use it for starving people. This especially doesn't work if a fuel provider is funding the crops. They wouldn't have been funding it otherwise, so it wouldn't exist for feeding the starving.
"Don't do X, because then you can't do Y" falls down when nobody is doing Y anyway. Using this argument it's "Don't do anything because there's no perfect solution and other problems exist."