Biofuels from deadly products …
by Tim Wilson, March 31, 2010
There’s an interesting article in today’s The Australian on the use of tobacco as a potential source of biofuels. As many readers will know the foolish obsession for biofuels to help cut global carbon emissions recently cut available food supply and consequently led to food prices increases. These increases had a relatively insignificant impact on food prices developed countries but hit people in the developing world harshly.
The theory behind tobacco-based biofuels is that it won’t increase the price of food but may increase the price of tobacco and either cut tobacco company profits, or increase the price of tobacco for consumers and price them out of the market. But to get there the world will need to get over its objection to genetically modified agriculture products to reap the true benefits.
It’ll be interesting to see how this debate progresses because it will require debating over some sacred cows.
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