yes, exactly.. it's not ethanol or biodiesel that is hurting anyone it's how it's being produced to meet the demand at the prices the fuel producers want to pay in order to get a big profit out of it. (Well, after you factor in the subsidies.) The way it's being produced is the same as food has been produced for the last thirty years.
In order to compete with highly subsidized agriculture in North America and Europe farmers in third world countries have been forced to deforestation, slash and burn, corporatization, loss of small farms, and poverty.
Local production for local use would be fine, the big problem there is that those of us who are using too much oil and gas now want to be able to continue using too much bio fuel. Our own land base isn't big enough to meet our needs and the destruction we cause is too far away for us to notice or be particularily concerned with.
Very similar to our need for cheap clothes, tv's, cars. toys, etc.
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