Are you noticing the number of articles and news stories covering the price hikes of food crops like wheat, rice, corn, and soybeans and all the social problems that it is bringing with it.

If you want to learn some more please read the following articles:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/03/AR2008040304054.html

http://us.ft.com:80/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto040320082106487112

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_3140.shtml

Although there are multiple factors responsible for the shortage and resulting price hikes like failing crops due to weather paterns and fungus; a big part of the problem is of course that a lot of the food stuff is presently being used to produce biofuels which has become so attractive due to the government incentives for production and development of "alternative" fuels.

If you now look around and see how much fossil fuel has effectively been replaced by biofuels to date you will not notice any significant difference. The so called biofuels that are marketed around the world are not more than a blend of the same old fossil fuels mixed with 2 to 5% of the food-stuff.....which "allows" the fuel retailers to market their fuels as "green". That of course is the biggest advantage that people who buy the biofuels feel less guilty burning the stuff because they think it is green.....and thus do not feel the need to burn less.

Do you really think that biofuels are the solution? or that biofuels are green?

Biofuels is not more than a fantastic marketing idea to make people feel less guilty about burning fuel and contributing to global warming. Mixing 2-5% food stuff to your fuel tank really does not do any good to the environment; in fact this 2-5% in a bio-liter is doing more harm to the environment and even more harm to the social world's environment than leaving those 2-5% ordinary fossil fuel.

Please start realizing that the worst thing we human beings on this planet are doing is Burning! That is the only problem we have to address; get away from buring and go to a higher level of energy which is electricty generated without burning. We can energize our cars with electricity and will need only 0,3 upto 0,5 MJ/km compared to 3 upto 10 MJ/km when we burn fuel to energize our cars.

The present food price increases world wide are a warning-sign that should tell us to start diverting from our "burnivorous" lifestyles and start adapting to "electrivorous" lifestyles.

We all just have to keep remembering that BURNING IS BAD. Burning is the tool that gave human being it's "power" to control nature 200.000 years ago....and till today burning is still the most powerfull weapon......innovated to "great" levels (bombs, guns and rockets are all based on burning technology) but still based on the 200.000 year old discovery of the destructive force of fire and turning something valueable found in nature to ashes. 

Start realizing that burning is for primitives....look at what happens when people are desperate and start rioting.....the end of the game is always burning.... Many crimes are covered up by burning the effidence....etc....BURNING IS BAD so we better start to learn how to harvest energy without burning.

The technologies are all available and if you are energy literate you will even see that it will be cheaper as well:

A liter of Fuel is now aproaching a sales price of USD 5 cents/MJ and a MJ of Solar Electricity is USD 7 cents/MJ

Now look at a Fuel burning car burning 3 to 10 MJ/km will cost you 15 to 50 cents/km while an electric car consuming 0,3 to 0,5 MJ/km will cost only 2,1 to 3,5 cents per km on "Expensive" Solar Electricty.

Do you agree now that Burning has no future?