EU set to scrap biofuels target amid fears of food crisis

It's about time that this approach is revised. I'm all for saving the planet but not at the expense of the food supply.

It seems to me that the real solution for the fuel crisis is to use less. Hybrid and electric vehicles are the answer to this disaster.

I agree, titopadilla.

At the end of the day, if biofuels are implemented in mass, it would create mass devastation, environmentally and for poorer communities all around the world.

I say spend the money on research into new battery and hydrogen technology.

That is all crap. Did you know that the government pays farmers not to grow. Come on now.. Corn is not the only recyclable product. Sugar cane, swish grass, basely any known plant can be turn into fuel even if you want to go farther cow shit. Read up on this before you say you don't want it. That is exactly what the oil controllers want you to think. They are running out of oil and what will happen when they run out of oil. They will go broke or I have to assume they already have it figure out to capture the next market. Follow you own common sense and not those that are leading you by the noise.

time to get cracking on water powered cars.

yeah! finally people are realizing that corn fuel is the worst idea ever! Not only does it raise the price of food but the environment doesn't benefit at all, especially water consumption. The best plan is to REDUCE, RECYCLE and REUSE.
we can ever kill two birds with one stone and save gas while riding our bikes and becoming healthier.

Biofuels in general aren't the problem, it is what you make them out of. Corn ethanol is not sustainable, but there are other sources such as switchgrass and hemp that are not food sources, are more sustainable, and could fill the space of corn. Dumping all biofuels is exactly what oil companies would love.

Seems like there are a lot of alternative sources of energy out there, with science to back it up. We just gotta use it.

We have the ideas, now we just need the action!

there need to be sustainability criterion! biodiversity criterion! carbon measurement schemes etc! biofuels should not be dropped and it won't be.

however, what needs to happen is a "cost of carbon reduction" study?

if making cars more efficient is cheaper than producing biofuels to achieve same emissions reduction, shouldn't we just go with more efficient cars? of course it's not that simple.

the best answer is that we should pursue both in a practical manner.

Thanks, Vierotchka!
Hemp is the one solution that makes so much sense, solving nearly every problem we are facing, save garbage piling up...
The trillion and one uses for hemp are not given too much thought in some of the key markets due to its stigmatized relation with Marijuana... Educate people daily on the difference and endorse hemp whenever possible!

We can not forsake feeding the world by using our food grain for power. Globle warming will not change overnite. Maybe we need to send a few rockets to the sun, filled with water to cool it down a little.

Biofuels will cause more problems and solve none.