Biofuels under a shadow - We can’t use food if it fuels starvation

THE EU Commission has rejected claims that producing biofuels is a “crime against humanity” that threatens world food supplies.

The commission also insisted our biofuel policy, aimed at confronting climate and energy challenges, will not be changed. Only yesterday all sellers of transport fuel in Britain became obliged, under law, to mix ethanol made from crops with all fuels.

However, last Friday, an advisory panel to the European Environment Agency (EEA) said that the EU should suspend its goal of having 10% of transportation fuel made from biofuel by 2020. The report adds weight to the strengthening argument against biofuels because of the impact their production is having on poor countries’ food supplies.