Reply #2: There are many aspects to this issue. First it is all about land use [View All]

[jwirr]

policy. If we use land to grow fuel we are not using it to grow food which produces the expected rise in food costs. We need to find a crop that will grow on marginal land not used for food and use that for fuel. We need to see that we are not sacrificing wooded acreage as we grow fuel. All of this has to balance out. We also need to make sure that the farmer of good food producing land does not suffer economically because he/she does not produce fuel over food.