In 2007 and early 2008, for example, a bumper crop of media articles blamed sharply higher food prices worldwide on the production of biofuels,
particularly ethanol from corn, in the United States.
Let's reword all this and say that we want to improve energy efficiency and reduce waste and real pollution wherever we can, we want to move away
from ever scarcer and costlier fossil fuels,
particularly those that have to be imported
from a price - fixing cartel of nations that are generally hostile to us and we want to develop new domestic sources of energy, be that shale oil and gas, new biofuels (not silly
corn - to -
ethanol schemes) and other renewable energy sources, etc..
The use of
ethanol produced
from corn in the U.S. and sugar cane in Brazil has given birth to the commercialization of an alternative fuel that is coming to show substantial promise,
particularly as new feedstocks are developed.